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hi all cyber-dad-don and i had a cyber-sation this morning i know he does not mind my sharing this just reinforces my reasons for giving thanks no matter what month, country, or phase of the moon janet aka sis >Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 07:20:09 -0500 >To: "Don McKinley" <[log in to unmask]> >From: janet paterson <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: MONEY > >hi cyber-dad > >At 13:21 1999/11/23 -0800, you wrote: >>hi sis remember couple years ago some sent me money. how upset >>i got and gave it to charity. we decided it was a bad police in >>sending any one money. ... > >yep > >>I think i was the first to except IVAN as one of us regardless of >>his believes. he has done lot for PWP'S ... > >yep > >>i now got a big problem a fellow who is blind but has PD. 78 years >>old. 3 years a PWP. he asked me to tell him how to live withit so >>long. I don't want to fib to him got to give him some kind of a >>answer and not hurt him. i have been so sick lately and tired. >>al most ready to through in the towel. he has a program that reads >>his email to him. i got to come up which an answer soon. may be >>you got an answer.... > >maybe i do and maybe i dont! >i had to think about this for a bit > >so now i just re-read your message and said to myself > >78 years old and blind - how long has he been blind? > >"how can he 'possibly' cope with such a 'devastating' handicap?"... >"i'd rather be dead than blind"... >see what i mean? it's all relative - > >there's lots of different kinds of seeing >i can't "see" pd as a curse but a lot of people do >and i am afeard that "looking" on it as a curse is a self-fulfilling prophecy > >what you see is what you want to see and ends up being what you get > >of course you are feeling lousy and tired and sick right now >you are entitled > >who doesn't once in awhile ? >and who wouldn't with your current health belly? > >woe is me, i have a sore throat, itchy eyes etc >and i'm probably coming down with a cold or the flu >and i probably caught it by hanging around >with my niblings at a couple of hockey games >but >should i have been a hermit instead? nunh unh!!! > >>well withall the work you got i will by LOVE dad >> I.Y.Q > >lots of work yes >but not nearly as much inspiration as talking to you > >i hope this helped >it has sure helped me >i don't know where it comes from, but you drag it out! > >love >sis > >janet paterson >52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset >e-mail - [log in to unmask] >web-site - http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/ >