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Thanks, YPunday
What a lovely gift! Thank you so much! a Cookoo? Am I going a little nutty? Cuckoo?
Cee
posted by
LadyCeeMarie
on August 17, 2006 at 5:16 PM
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Thanx 4 R loving scolding. I have this cuckoo for Dave Cryer &my dave &MC
posted by
ILLUMINATI8
on August 17, 2006 at 4:37 PM
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Maggie-
I think you are right about being on the cusp of many many great cures ahead. As more of our loved ones and more of US get sick, especially like I did at such an early age of 30, more and more people are going to open their minds and God hopefully their hearts to preserve life if we seek it. How are YOU doing with that new knee?
Luv, Cee
posted by
LadyCeeMarie
on August 16, 2006 at 7:21 AM
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YP-
Saw you and NOW I see the matchup with your girls at your acquarium (Pictured earlier). I thought they would be adult children; you make yourself out to be so OLD! LOL You are very handsome, so why all the subterfuge?
Cee
posted by
LadyCeeMarie
on August 16, 2006 at 7:15 AM
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Oh, Cee, I so hope you are right. I'd love to see the cure for PD and so many other diseases. You're probably right too, that it won't be done in our lifetime, but what they're learning from us will benefit those down the line; perhaps our own grandchildren when they're our age. I would never wish PD of anything on them, but it could be what they learn from us that helps them when they reach our age. You know what I mean, don't you?
I know I'm probably benefiting (Polyneuropathy) from somebody in the past.
posted by
MaggieMae
on August 15, 2006 at 2:32 PM
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Cee--come see me--and my bird haiku. I'm on a roll, because of your support
posted by
ILLUMINATI8
on August 14, 2006 at 5:25 PM
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Taps-
Thank you!
CeeMarie
posted by
LadyCeeMarie
on August 14, 2006 at 11:57 AM
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Ceemarie, thank you. He is gone now. He was somewhere around the age of my Dad. I think it is pretty common for people to watch for signs, in themselves and their children, of whatever their parents and grandparents suffered from--Alzheimer's for instance.
posted by
TAPS.
on August 14, 2006 at 11:46 AM
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I feel for your friend, TAPS
It's a blessing that your friend could still smile! I notice my face sometimes looks very asymetrical at times. One side droops more than the other as one side of the brain is usually affected more than the other. I think there are many kinds of Parkinson's. I have been DXed with Classic yada-yada-yada which is very slow progressing. My programmer said her husband only had it a few years. His son was dxed at age 30 and only lasted 7 years. She asked me if I feared for MY children. I had read where they only had a 5% chance of getting it. She disagreed. She said that she was always jumpy about any suspicious movements her daughter or son might show, after what happened to their step-dad and their step-brother. She doesn't wonder "if" but "when."
Cee
posted by
LadyCeeMarie
on August 14, 2006 at 11:38 AM
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Ceemarie, I hope that it is true. Also, I am thankful for the modern day medicines/tx that we have today to keep PD at bay as long as possible while waiting for a cure. The very first PD patient that I ever knew personally, was a terrible learning experience for me. I knew him from 1954 when I was sixteen. It wasn't long after I became friends with his daughter that I began to notice movements that seemed a bit odd for a healthy man. I knew nothing about it, only that he seemed to gradually become more and more incapacitated. As it turned out, in 1992 I became his nurse in a long-term care facility. Except for the name, an unusual one, I would never have known it was him--except for his smile. That had not changed. It would have been so great, if early in his Dx and Tx he would have had at his disposal, some of the procedures and medicines that you have told us about.
posted by
TAPS.
on August 14, 2006 at 10:50 AM
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Yes, the Lazarus Plant idea came from YOU!
(I'm sure the hydrangea will smell better-
Cee
posted by
LadyCeeMarie
on August 14, 2006 at 10:34 AM
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Great idea 2 rename your miracle hydrangea as LAZARUS PLANT. You too
can be the miracle you witness and convey in your writings so powerfully. We are praying--and hope to testify to His timely intervention. Glory, glory!
posted by
ILLUMINATI8
on August 14, 2006 at 1:59 AM
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