Re: pushing all my buttons...

[Bill Harrington <dopey@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

john and list: So you're saying PD is the worse of the two?

At 12:59 PM 12/18/98 EST, you wrote:
>Tom,
>
>As a Type I, insulin-dependent diabetic for the past 29 years, and a PWP for
>at least 7 (diagnosed 3.5 years), I have watched the discussion referenced in
>your note with feelings similar to yours.  I didn't want to comment on its
>foolishness, but am prompted to thank you for doing so.
>
>The essential issue, it seems to me, is neither disease itself, but rather how
>it affects a given indivdual; and there are such wide-ranging differences in
>the impact of each.  I can tesitify, for anyone interested, that these
>conditions (Type I Diabetes and Parkinsons), while unrelated, can interact
>pretty vehemently in one individual who has both.  In my case, the strains
>emerging from PD threw my Diabetes (for the first time in 28 years, into wild
>uncontrol and numerous, unpreventable, unpredictable insulin reactions over a
>9-month period, one result of which was my determination to seek disability
>status (i.e. to stop working full-time) -- and I am now awaiting the final
>Social Security Disability claim response.
>
>Since I stopped working, I've (thankfully) regained excellent diabetic
>control, even as my PD symptoms continue to worsen.
>
>Best regards,
>
>John Bachman
>
>