.............Why i keep putting notches in my "PARKINSONS CURE STICK". It's at 10 now. That's graduated in BS units. A BS unit is a five year period from when mankind says "WE" will accomplish things like world peace and other things which are either realized or not; and if not, the clock keeps advancing, into yet another long BS unit, untill it's inevitable "final words are said about it, and it never reverts again It comes to a halt.
If the intervening number of BS units before "our cure" is more than another two or 3, many of us who know each other and have hashed over everything ever said about what PD is all about won't be here anymore, ever. We, the victims of PD have had a lot to say about this malady. I guessed that around 1960 is the first time in history that a serious effort was put forth to "CURE" Parkinson's disease, and thus the start of "our cure" in BS units. So it's 2010, and i'm a runnin out of stick.
It seemed so simple, we knew a lot about

http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/...obooknerv.html

even in 1960. Isn't it butt stupid obvious that, even knowing very little about brain architecture and function, that all it takes to cure PD is put some new viable tissue that would grow and fill the interstitial areas between the dead neurons, and with proper genetic control just stop growing after a calculable cell number of divisions (not really tough question) and, voila, we've bioengineered a transplant that can grow and not differentiate, a "workable interstitial cellular network of dopaminergic neurons" that actualy do "cure" PD like symptoms. It's highly probable that there exists right now this "holy grail" that we seek, but nobody is willing to be the first to step forward with their inventions, something i call the "Amgen Syndrome". We all know this attempt to stabilize the areas of damage of dopaminergic cells with substances derived from glial cells, which were thought to optimize support and survivability of the remaining neurons. Maybe the pharm Kings have thrown up their hands? Maybe the Kings are quietly sliding into the bioengineering field? Who really knows. I've seen some very encouraging, scientifically elegant work out there on "cell engineering". Me, i've got a good feeling since our new prez took over that great strides are being made toward the "cell therapy" method of a cure for PD. I believe that saving peoples lives who want to live but are cut down by disease and the building of a "New America", are, truthfully and honestly on the heart of the man who received a nobel prize before he really should have. Ten bucks we'll get our cure before two more notches are carved in my stick. That's optimism that I have never "felt" untill lately. And even though i know that in one BS, a few of us will slip away DUE TO PD, and will be greatful to finally be rid of this twisting crawling, extremely visciously uncomfortable torture that you eventually describe as your experience with PD goes beyond 2or 3 BS's. cs