Hi again Carey, Paula, and everybody.

I just want you to know, I don't feel pressured. I know that we all know that any decision we make in this crazy PD world is extremely personal, and I don't blame any of you for your decisions or conlusions. To the extent that I am able to, I don't mind sharing my reasons, which is why I posted.

As to whether genetic research is the future of medicine, or of PD treatment, I am not so sure. Since the incidences of early onset PD seem to be increasing significantly, even in communities where the population is not increasing, how could we not wonder whether the causes are more from the air and water we consume, all that crap that goes into processed food these days, the increasing genetically modified crops that threaten to make any other kind of farming on the planet impossible, whatever. WHERE IS LAMARCK WHEN WE NEED HIM?!?!?!