I was supposed to have heard last week from the nurse practitioner at the testing center, as I always do in the intervals between visits, so on Monday I called her. She responded on Tuesday. She said she'd been "dragging her feet" about calling me because she hated to give me the news. Yup, Kyowa pulled out of the whole laborious wrangle with the FDA [MY phrasing, not hers]. I have to stop taking istradefylline in July. I'll be away for a while then, so my appointment is July 30. I expect I'll be like the undead for a while after that, or maybe forever. That does it! I'm taking up yoga.

Jaye