Re: re-fitting and re-furbishing announcement

[Joan Hartman <jmh13@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

1999  sounds like it was a great year for you, Janet, in blessings,
emotions, familly, moving,  and knowledge.....may we all....  to use your
words ... "in this creaking old bus together" learn  and benefit  from our
journey through 1999 and go into the milenium and find new meaning, health
and happiness in our lives and a cure for PD.....   Joan Hartman
----- Original Message -----
From: janet paterson <janet313@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 10:24 AM
Subject: re-fitting and re-furbishing announcement


> hi all
>
> 1999 has been a significant year for me
>
> i have been belted and blessed
> ['tough love'] at the same instant
> by the fact of qualifying for disability pension
> as provided by my co-ontarians
>
> [why oh why is it so hard to ask for help?]
>
> i have nested
> in my own home in canada
> for the first time in 20 years
>
> i have re-gained
> a clutch of 24 count-em 24 niblings
> previously long-lost for over 20 years
>
> i have inched
> toward my long-lost newly re-found daughter,
> still unseen since she was 3 months old in 1966
> but much enjoyed via e-mail so far and anticipating a 3D visit soon
>
> i learned
> html and set up my own web-site
>
> i learned
> how to read graphic depictions of brain surgery
> without fainting instantly
>
> i jumped
> [feet first] into listserv
> and mailing list nerdling
>
> i have taken
> a long hard look at the "wwwinnebago-on-the-wwweb"
> which is my web-site "a new voice" and have found it wwwanting
>
> [my apologies to jim finn and don berns and bill harshaw
> for the unexpected delays caused by the unexpected re-organization]
>
> all of the foregoing
> have left their marks on me
> [which i hope i am the better and wiser for]
> and quite possibly on a few other of my co-travelers
>
> we are all in this creaking old bus together
> like it or not
> believe it or not
> and hard as it is to imagine at times
> not a single one of us is doing the driving
>
> [why oh why is it so hard to be a back-seat non-driver?]
>
> in the spirit of the season
> i ask forgiveness from any and all whose toes got squished
> due to my frequently boundless and sometimes heedless enthusiasm
>
> if learning means goofing up
> i are very smart by now
>
>
> janet
>
> janet paterson
> 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset
> 
> 613 256 8340 po box 171 almonte ontario canada k0a 1a0
>