So very, very sad about this news.

Rick was one of the people on this forum whose voice I treasured, and one of those who helped us reassemble after the big crash of Braintalk some years ago.

I will never forget the despair I felt when it disappeared. Though I had got to know people online, I had at that time never met anyone else with PD. After much searching and weeks of trying to find something, anything about Braintalk, suddenly there was an online message from Rick. It was as though the light had been switched on again.

Supportive, funny and knowledgable, he was tireless in looking for better alternatives than submitting to PD. I can only think the way he chose to go reflects some of this. Nevertheless, like Laura, I am angry at this news, that medicine had nothing to help him, that the always promised and ever non materialising drugs never came in time for him, that the countless millions of dollars and research hours were nothing in the face of the relentless progression that Rick faced.

My thoughts are with his family today, especially with Wanda, who I wish I had known about before, and didn't.

Others will pass this way soon to share their sorrow at this news. Thank you, Scott for travelling out to meet Wanda, and for bringing us this news, for bad as it is, it is not as terrible as not knowing.

Most of all, thank you Rick, for being a good friend and companion on the road we have all travelled, I'll miss you more than words can say.