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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

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Retirement?? WHAT retirement???

Hey Pam,

I feel sorry to read of your diagnosis - but a lot can be done these days to cope with this, with the right drugs on the `chemical' side, and besides that you seem to have a healthy attitude :)

I wish you all the best and look forward to the magic you are doing to the FSX aircraft!

Greetings from the East Coast of Corsica,
Mark
 
Warchild,
my wife was diagnosed Parkinson's disease in 2005, just after she retired from being a schoolteacher. A special brain exam conducted with radioactive material, confirmed the doctor's diagnosis.
As of today she can still write, drive, play piano, and do whatever is needed around her person and around the house. The major problems are an arm tremor, slow movements, and leg pain, but she can live with them.
There are several forms and intensities of this illness, but according to more than one specialists we have seen so far, dementia is NOT associated with Parkinson's.

I wish your form is slow-proceeding and I like to assure you that your intelligence will not necessarily fade off.

Very very good luck,

Ezio
 
warchild said:
Actually, I remember vietnam all too well at times, and not to be argumentative or anything but my current avatar pretty much shows exactly what everyone was fighting for over there.. To get back home, have a good beer somewhere where you werent dodging b-b's or mortars ( or flies or gnats or rainwater up to your waist, or crotch rot, or so many other things ) and be with that someone special. No soldier ever wanted to be in any war, once they were there.. There's no glory, theres no honor, theres only killing and death.. We all for thousands of years, have fought for only one reason, and that was to stay alive long enough to go home.. Screw the altruisms, War is too personal for that. We fought for ourselves, and each other, not the government.. and thats the truth of it no matter which war nor how far back in history you go..
Check out a book titled "Achilles in Vietnam". Its not a novel, and its extremely good.. The author pretty much puts it on the line..
These planes we build. They did a job yes, but they helped us stay alive as well.. To me, thats what made them great..
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:salute: Big o' lump in throat, ya unnerstand.

Sorry on the diagnosis too Pam, bummer. My wife is a pharmacist and there are much better meds for the disease now, that plus staying busy. Same with Alzheimer's, meds are there if diagnosed early and one "has" to use those neurons in the noggin'.

Hope all can be kept in check mate, prayer out for ya.

Caz
 
sorry to hear about your diagnosis. For what it is worth, I'll send positive thoughts your way on a regular basis.

best regards
MC
 
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