[QUOTE=rose of his heart;514864]As a newly dx serious thinker AND serious feeler (it's not either or), I appreciate this site and other PD online communities as visited and then condescendingly described above by Rick. (I am disappointed after months of reading what seemed like your fairly enlightened postings.)

If you and others on this site are able to muster the courage, energy, money, time, research and decision-making skills to avoid pharmaceuticals, you should count yourself blessed, not mock the rest of us...>>

Mockery was never my intent. Sadness, perhaps. It is simply the truth. The PD community actually takes in two diseases. Senior Onset is a disease of aging and often is one of several afflictions. These folks are old, sick, and trust too much. And they are the majority. Young Onset is something different but we don't know what. But we are lumped in with the others and are in the minority. For the most part the folks here are in the latter group at least in spirit. But ROHH, we are not a ciique, we're refugees I'm sorry, but you are going to fit right in if you choose to stay. Forgive me, but I feel old and crabby today and I'm really not either one.