Re: LIST: why search the PARKINSN list archives

[joan carol urquhart <jcu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Regarding skin colour...for those of us who sit in front of a computer for
hours at a time, we probably all share one common colour...flourescent
glow-in-the-dark.  For those of us with freckles we must look a photographic
negative of the milky way.

Here are the chain of event s leading up to my t-shirt design idea...
(a limited edition of one)

In August i cleaned under my couch
and under my couch I found an URL
I followed the URL to a cyber PD  info farm
and on this farm we found some friends
who shared alot
so we spread the URL...
we told my mom's neurologist
(who did not know)
and my mom's physiotherapist
(whom she  did not have before  joining  the list
and who did not know)
and her physiotherapist told her PD dad
(who did not know about Kathyrnne Holden's nutrition book
and about the Parkinson Post)
which we got from this list
and from this list
we learned about support groups
and found one at home
to which we now belong
where we met other PDs
(who did not know about this list)
where they showed us some things
about Community Access
to assist my mother
from day to day
so now
she is curious
about Independance Dogs
all because one day
I cleaned under my couch
and found an URL

wouldn't it just be easier
to get the URL
off of someone's t-shirt
as you pass them
in the grocery store?
or out on the street?
(cuz I don't like cleaning under the couch)

that's why the t-shirt idea

on the other hand
just wait
til I clean my closets?

Joan U


-----Original Message-----
From: janet paterson <janet313@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, September 30, 1999 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: LIST: why search the PARKINSN list archives


>hi all
>
>At 11:09 1999/09/30 -0400, Joan U wrote:
>>An interesting analogy Janet..
>>There are some PWPs on dry dock being fed daily from the
>>harvest of information that this list yields. I feel a
>>t-shirt design coming on...just this listserve's URL and
>>the words "plant a seed for Parkinson's Disease"  Do we
>>have any official colours?
>>morning meanderings from one redhead to another
>>Joan U
>
>ono,
>another redhead!
>is there something here worth investigating???
>
>seriously though,
>one of the studies posted recently said that
>black people or people 'of colour' have
>less chance of contracting pd
>
>on the scale of skin colour
>mine rates as white as a sheet of xerox #1524 20 lb finest
>
>and on a different subject,
>i don't know about official pd colours
>
>the canadian foundation used to use a lot of purple
>in their printed newsletter
>
>their coffee mugs had red and white tulips
>
>i think the official parkinson tulip is red and white
>but i can't remember how 'official' official is
>canadian, dutch, european??
>
>a quick scan through my collection of pd brochures
>american and canadian
>yields
>red
>blue
>green
>grey
>purple
>
>so
>in re your 'official' colour question
>the short answer is 'probably not'
>
>what's this about tee shirts?
>
>janet
>
>janet paterson
>52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset
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