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Dear List-Family... I need your collective help. I need your help because I run a PD support group that, while they're a bunch of very nice people, they almost always wait to be ENTERTAINED by me - in my capacity as moderator as well as a PWP - and by the assorted guest speakers I've scheduled in the 18 months since the start of the group. I learned mighty fast that when I scheduled a guest speaker, I could count on between 25 to 45 attendees, and for a select few speakers, there have been over 100 attending. What I'm TRYING to say is that we get the BODIES but we don't get a whole heckuva lotta INTERACTION *during* the meeting amongst the members. People DO interact after the meetings and attend our monthly "Parkies-On-the-Town" dinners at local eateries tho, and do interact then. (WHEW) I 'm now planning the November 20th meeting, and it's going to be an interactive meeting if it KILLS me! I'm gonna do my darndest to cause interaction amongst those who attend the meeting if I've gotta stand on my head and spit wooden nickels! (errrrr... I don't do very often) <giggle> Since the group members always like it when I tell them a PD-related tip or two, WHAT I NEED FROM *YOU* is a list of the tips you you've learned about making life with PD easier, whether as a PWP, or a caregiver. I'm thinking of tips like: - Taking your meds with a sweet beverage usually causes the meds to kick in faster. - Vitamin E can often get rid of leg cramping And on and on... Since many of the tips are kinda oddities - like the fact that Parkies as a group seem to crave SWEETS - that kind of thing DOES catch the group's attention and they tend to interject by offering their their viewpoints and comments. Will you all help me get 'em to interact by either posting your PD-related tips to the List or be emailing 'em to me? (My guess is that a public posting on the List, of your tips would be of value to many of our newer List members) Then I can build the entire November meeting around the many tips that help those cope with Parkinson's. And THEN there's sure to be a lot of member interaction! Thanks a lot, youse people! Barb Mallut (getting collection of wooden nickels ready for action) [log in to unmask]