Dear janet: With the GREATEST respect: I read this
posting and it scared me. I thought immediately that
you had been replaced by a particularly cranky
Parkinsonian clone. Or, since we were talking about
witches, crone. The courageous and fair-minded woman
who has defended so consistently the right of
ListMembers to speak out on any subject that they feel
relevant to PD, even the infamous pig chronicles,
calling a heart-felt exchange between two ListMembers
about how the disease was affecting them emotionally,
"sentimental and totally irrelevant giri-talk"? I
wasn't too complimanted by the "do-gooder whimpy-ass"
remark, either. Fortunately, as a result of being a
PIEnet veteran, I now have thick skin. Perhaps the
subject header WAS misleading, as I was not
complaining about the List TOPICS. Nor was it meant as
any kind of personal criticism of you and all the good
work you do. You too have friends here. Remember that.
Oh, and one more thing. That "schizoid idiot
blindfolded with one hand tied behind his back," was
demeaning, both to those with low I.Q.s (the term is
no longer used) and to me.
Carole H.
P.S. I also have PD.
--- janet paterson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> hi all
>
> At 16:44 1999/10/08 -0700, carole wrote:
> >Dear Judith: If being tired of the constant
> >nit-picking on the List makes you a Wicked Witch,
> then
> >I wanna join the club. But I think that all the
> >geographic terms that apply to my little corner of
> the
> >world have already been taken. As I have noted
> before,
> >the members of this List are among the most
> >intelligent, caring, and well-informed people I
> have
> >ever met. Also among the most opinionated and
> >downright cantankerous, and I do not exclude
> myself.
> >Some days and nights spent with Mr.PD are so damned
> >bad you barely have the energy to fight with your
> >enemies. Let alone your family and friends. And
> when
> >the strain of being constantly courageous when
> trying
> >to cope with cranky Parkies, as well as trying to
> live
> >in the world of 'normals' that take for granted
> >everything that you used to be able to do, becomes
> >overwhelming I find a good cry, or screaming, or
> >punching pillows, or whatever else you do to let it
> >all out, is oddly refreshing and life-affirming.
> Hang
> >in there. You've got friends.
> > Carole H.
>
>
>
> to carole and judith and other thread-spinners
> with the GREATEST respect:
>
> now,
> there's a perfct example of really POOR use of the
> subject-header-line
> let alone topic-names!!!
>
> could someone, ANYONE, please tell me what the heck
> the above sentimental and totally IRRELEVANT
> girl-talk
> has to do with "topic-names"???
>
> or even with PD,
> when you get right down TOIT???
>
> all this boring talk about nit-picking and crying
> and crankiness
> has NO BUSINESS on this list
> and i, for one, am, quite frankly, getting sick and
> tired
> of having to read this kind of useless malarkey
> it really hurts my sensitive eyeballs AND
> TURNS my delicate stomach
> and i feel quite bad enough already, thank you very
> much!!!
>
> the last time i looked,
> THIS list was SUPPOSED to be about Parkinson's
> Disease
> not some do-gooder WIMPLY-ASS 'sharing' support
> group
> moaning and complaining 'oh, woe is me'!!!
> do us all a HUGE favour and
> go join the PILLOW PUNCHERS' newsgroup!!!
>
> and another thing that i fail to understand is
> just what is so darned "difficult"
> for our so-called INTELLIGENT list-members
> about making a simple little change to the subject
> header line,
> [so simple that even a schizoid IDIOT would be able
> to do it
> blindfolded and with one hand tied behind his back[
> when replying to a post???
> how on god's green earth can we keep
> CERTAIN list-members from complaining about
> list-volume
> if we can't even use this SIMPLE feature to our
> advantage???
> why do i even BOTHER suggesting all these things???
> nobody EVER appreciates it!!!
>
> and another thing that really takes the cake,
> just what is all this ridiculous GARBAGE about
> optimism and pessimism???
> who cares???!!! i have pd, period!!!
> that's ALL that matters to ME!!!
>
>
>
> janet paterson
> 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset
> 613 256 8340 po box 171 almonte ontario canada K0A
> 1A0
> a new voice:
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> <[log in to unmask]>
>
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