Several people have insisted that the excellent medical care I get is very unusual. I have decided that I can no longer keep it to myself. I must tell you my secret. I'm cute.

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Jaye

This is true!!
You are a cutie and a nice one at that!!!

I wouldn't call myself handsome but kids like me, which I find encouraging......


Charlie

Embarrassing but true. All of it. But especially the part about smiling and listening. Kindness is usually met with kindness, and politeness goes a long way to make people treat you with equal regard.
I'm an old fashioned Dane from before the time when manners became passé in Denmark, which was at least 20 years before politeness went out of fashion in the US. Contrary to popular belief, Americans used to have at least as lovely, often better, manners - some still do - as any European.
Good manners are not stiff and off putting, they are about keeping everyone comfortable in any situation. Politeness is not fawning or patronizing, it is a show of respect for others. A polite person will almost always be treated well, whether good looking or not so good looking, because politeness is attractive, disarming and charming,
Good manners are like traffic rules: drive carefully, drive politely, drive courteously, drive defensively and know the rules. It is not at all fair not to teach children old fashioned good manners. It is like letting them out in traffic without teaching them any traffic rules.
Rudeness, ugly words and bad temper can make the prettiest person seem ugly, but they also make a less pretty person seem even uglier - life is not fair.

Jaye, you are very cute!!!!!!

politely,
birte

Okay, on the chuckle side, since this is posted to the Parkinson's disease forum:
This quote is great...especially the part about "the importance of posture and bearing," which all PWPs have...right
Let's see, then there is the "for one week you stand straight"...no more stooping...
"tuck in your stomach, hold your head high"...I don't know if my neck can still do that anymore
"and smile"...can I still do that..."at those you meet." But, they don't know I am smiling. My mother still tells me, "smile, you look like you're frowning." For some reason she still hasn't gotten it that I don't smile well anymore... Heck, every time Dr. Shulman evaluates me, with the eagle eye of hers watching every tiny movement I make or don't make, one of the notes she makes is when I think I'm smiling...but NOT!

Well, seriously, it is all true. In addition to my good looks and bearing, I find that knowing much about your illness/disease is also beneficial. The majority of doctors that I know today find it to be a good thing that I know what I know about medical stuff. To the ones that are shocked, I simply say, "It is my disease, isn't it my job to know all I can know about it."

I'm going to take your word for it that you're cute, Jaye, since I've never met you to know what you look like. And I'm sure that "cuteness" does result in others having a more positive opinion of you purely based on looks.

But, I don't know you or what you look like and I still think, to quote an episode of "M*A*S*H", that you're "Cute as hell!" But better yet, you're open and welcoming and helpful even to someone you only know through the words written on this forum.

To those of you who wonder what this is all about, I recently was told that I'd have to travel out-of-state to continue in the KW-6002 drug study that Jaye and I both participate in. The doctor running the study I'm in is leaving and there was no one else to take her place. I was out of the study last summer because the study's guidelines were changed. Being off of the study drug was not fun. The study drug, Istradefylline, may not make me as good as new, but it does make me function noticeably better. So much so that I had a medically unnecessary surgery last summer so that I could return to the study!

Panicked at the thought of losing Istradefylline again, I poured out my tale to Jaye in a private message. She immediately offered to have me stay with her 3-4 times a year when I needed to be checked out. She also offerered to transport me to and from her doctor, coordinating our study appointments if I wanted to. I don't know about what all of you think, but I think that's a HUGE offer for her to have made to a virtual stranger!

So, Jaye, thank you - you are one cute lady!

Donna