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Originally Posted by YogaLife View Post
Soccertese this is not the first time you have responded to my posts in a overly disdainful way.
Would you beleive I hesitated in typing my last post because I was worried you would blow me out of the water again? I clearly stated that I did not believe the poll could be taken seriously. You statement about me telling other nurses and teachers makes me out to be some kind of idiot!
Disagreeing with a person can be done with grace. It is easy to run me over when you do not have to look at me face to face, but I assure you I am a real person with deep feelings. I came to this forum because I was feeling very much alone and needed support and information. You are the only community of people dealing with parkinsons that I have ever met since my husband's diagnosis and I cannot figure out for the life of me why you would not welcome me and my questions and opinions.
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Originally Posted by soccertese
yoga, i'll not respond to you anymore, but c'mon, you posted on this board that you read that teacher's get more pd, the one place where you'd expect people to know if that was a valid HYPOTHESIS or not. You mentioned you've been talking to people about pd and was told by everyone you talked to that knew someone who'd died of p.d. that they had dementia, you jump into threads about p.d. on other boards, you started a number of threads that i've never seen a new member start before. do i think your're going to still tell people that you think your poll is significant? you betcha! reread your last post, you still mentioned the count as interesting. does it really matter? no, and i apologize. i was rude. last post.
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Originally Posted by soccertese
rick,
i'll also refrain from making any future comments on your posts. you have a nice day.
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Okay, I must admit this was entertaining, but come on folks! Yogaforlife, don't let an overly skeptic and sometimes brusque Soccertese keep you from sharing your ideas, hunches or hypotheses. I didn't misread that you were stating any of your observation for fact. Nor, do I sense she intended to mislead anyone. I am not sure how you are extrapolating that?
That being said, I do think Soccertese has a valid message under the brusque manner. I think he is saying we have enough myth out there surrounding PD, so we need to be cautious of how we phrase things or in what we choose to share as anecdotal evidence because people will run with it. I just wish he'd find a kinder, gentler way...like using "I" statements or something.
So Yoga and Soccertese, please do not avoid each other or worse leave the forum behind. We need Newbies. We need a balance. I actually gave up posting on the YO forum at NPF because I couldn't stomach the misinformation. I felt compelled to set things right using research to back me then realized they don't care; they just want to wrap themselves in virtual warm fuzzies. I am too much a slap in the face, but I still post from time to time because I think that being in denial for too long is not good. I think the best part of this forum is the member's willingness to ask and face the tough questions.
Please let's not fight...really the idea of any of us arguing over this stuff (see Rick's new thread). Maybe we should figure out what is really bugging us and redirect our energy...
BTW, to further cement our hypothesis here... I was and still am a librarian first and foremost. Back when the PD could have been making a cozy nest in my brain, I worked as a reference librarian in several large, urban public libraries. My colleagues and I on some dreary, wintry days note how we felt more like we worked in a TB ward. Need I say more...