Re: My On Thing

[janet paterson <janet313@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:55 2000/07/24 -0500, joan wrote:
>Greg & Janet, Juanita & Murray: This in no way reflects on the way you
>personally react to your own battle w/ PD...this is mine alone-just as
>you must bear your own reactions to this disease. It has always been my
>contention that, no matter how many support & surround you with love, PD
>is a lonely disease-so is life for that matter, because when it comes
>right down to it-we're all in this journey alone-unless we decide to
>take spiritual help...which I will not get into here. All I can tell you
>is this: since my dxes 10 yrs ago at the age of 39 and despite 2
>pallidotomies (1 wildly successful, the other nearly killing me-I had to
>relearn to talk, eat, etc.),  I have become, either because of or in
>spite of the PD, a much better person. I have had the opportunity to
>co-author & co-edit a soon-to-be-published book: "Voices From The
>Parking Lot-Parkinson's Perspectives," and I am now planning to visit
>NYC with my husband (neither of us has ever been there). While there, we
>will attend a reception featuring the artwork of Jane Scott & Marc Esser
>& "Voices" with my friend Dennis from Australia at the National Arts
>Club in Gramercy Park. Also, after doing promotion & publicity for the
>BOOK, we will be taking orders for the book during the National Unity
>Walk and afterwards we will be guests at reception at a Manhattan
>restaurant to "Meet The Authors." This would not all be possible without
>my participation in this list.  I would have never met the very talented
>Dennis Greene, the wonderfully generous and "get-things-done" Margaret
>Tuchman nor the ever indomitable Don McKinley-to whom the book is
>dedicated, nor a vast majority of the talented authors, whose work
>graces our BOOK. For myself, and only myself, I am grateful for the door
>that was slammed shut in my face-forcing me to find other windows of
>opportunity.

yes!

janet


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