I've thought from the first time I heard of her that she had sympathetic PD symptoms, like men who have morning sickness and swollen ankles in sympathy with their pregnant wives, and like religious fanatics who develop stigmatas in hands and feet.
I'm sure she did not do this on purpose, and I know there will never be any way to prove me right, since we all of us PDers are diagnosed on symptoms only. She adored the Pope, and suffered with him. She was in such sympathy with his suffering that she imitated it, never realizing that it was hysteria and not PD that caused her symptoms.
The Pope died, and her symptoms died with him. I wish mine were hysteria too. I don't have any objection to calling her recovery a miracle if it makes people happy. But it wasn't one. What do you think??

birte