Re: Parkinson's is exhausting a gay couple with 2 children

[Barbara Mallut <barb_msn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ivan, m'friend....

I think a great many of we  Parkies suffer from a sorta "Fight the
good fight syndrome," after a few years of battling both the disease
AND the system.

"PD Burnout" is almost  like another symptom  OF the disease!

Hang in there, m'dear....

Barb Mallut
barb_msn@xxxxxxx




-----Original Message-----
From: Ivan M Suzman <cureit@xxxxxxxx>
To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN
<PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, October 17, 1998 2:18 AM
Subject: Parkinson's is exhausting a gay couple with 2 children


>Dear Listmemers,
>
>   At the moment, in the aftermath of the Laramie,Wyoming tragedy,
>Parkinson's challenges have overwhelmed my same-gender partner and
I. He
>has gone 300 miles away, to rest with his family for a while. We are
both
>having a very rough time.
>
>   I am isolated and weary. He is 38. I am 48. We were at the
Parkinson's
>Action Forum in Washington, D.C. in June, working together on the
Udall
>Act funding.
>
>   If anyone would like to talk to us, a  couple consisting of two
caring
>men, one of whom has advancing young-onset  Parkinson's, the other
with
>two beautiful children, a daughter aged 15 and  a son aged 10,
please
>write me at the e-mail address below, off-List (privately).
>
> Thank you.
>
>Ivan
>
>^^^^^^WARM GREETINGS  FROM^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Ivan Suzman         48/12/9.5         cureit@xxxxxxxx
>Portland, Maine    Land of lighthouses       deg. F
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