Sorry Therese, meant to quote english country dancer re her idea of a stroke.
Thanks,
Lee

In the first utterance of the words 'thank you button' since it was an issue, I have to thank Tena, for her diplomatic and I believe sincere thanks for all of the posts in this thread.

you have a good spirit - where is your poetry?

chatty paula

dear paula,
ok here's an oldie in memory of dear Blu, she liked this one!



Oh, Just Let me Hate Him!
by tenalouise


I hate that Mr. Parkinson's
that univited one,
he followed me in hot pursuit
until the deed was done.

No respecter of person's is he
Nor kind and gentle fella
I think he's just a coward
I 'll rename him - Mr. Yellah

Hey! Mr. Yellah, leave me alone!
I don't like you, cuz you stink!
You have made me mad and very sad
You've pushed me to the brink!

So now you know my enemy
To whom I don't belong,
Glad the day , I'll hear them say
The cure has come along.

And when my fight has ended
I'll tell that PD punk
Those brilliant ones that did you in
Are smarter than you thunk!

Birte has expressed it perfectly. The Catholic Church is desperately in need of "miracles" in these times of empty churches and growing scandals, they are losing too much power worldwide because of their refusal to see the signs of the times, and their aloofness to the situation of the poor, so all they can come up with is the beatification of John Paul II. Julius Caesar gave the Romans Bread and Circus (Panem et Circenses), the Vatican gives us new saints.
Having said this, I must also add that I really liked Pope John Paul II and that he'll make just as good a Saint as anybody.

Hi

Here I've gone and posed a question but failed to tell you what I think. First, I should say that I.m an atheist but I find them boring and generally try to avoid them. I don't know why I'm telling you this except you may find it a good time to hit the delete button. Secondly, I was raised in the Catholic Church, was an alter boy, memorized my Latin, attended Catholic schools for ten years and in eight years of grade school attended mass six days a week. My (Catholic) high school is the only one to which I will give money. Thirdly, I think the Devil's Advocate will be very tough. The Catholic Church doesn't want to embarrass itself by promoting an undeserving soul to sainthood. They have had that experience in the past. Over 1,000 years ago one man was killed in a drunken brawl and raised to sainthood. Some time back the church revised its list of saints and removed the names of those who were not deserving.

Fourthly, I don't think a miracle occurred.

I don't know how the Devil's Advocate will approach this miracle but my hunch is that he will focus on the diagnosis. I was diagnosed on my first visit but, I know, others have gone through several years of indecision before a final diagnosis was made. Still, if the Devil's Advocate does not find any compelling reasons to rule out a miracle, he will have to call it a miracle, even though none had occurred. Such is the vagaries of medicine

All the best

Lloyd

there are many things about being taught in Catholic school,that has a life long effect on people - and not always for the best...
George Carlin was Catholic can't you tell.
I will say - it gave me alot of doubts, but I am more the researcher type,
I had a very hard time believing most of the "Saint stuff" -
the novena to Saint Teresa, were it stated verbatim she will pick you a rose from her heavenly garden and you will receive it, in so many hours days etc.?
????????

I enjoy history, but history is dependant on good historians -
and for instance - I found out that US President George Washington, more than likely -never chopped down a cherry tree! never threw a dollar across the Potomac! all cultures have there fables mixed in with a touch of possible truth.
I have been to George Washington's home "Mount Vernon" - saw that he had slaves, and that they were his children. He was a very rich man, and the plantation was beautiful.
There are very tall glorious old magnolia trees there, that scent the air with perfume, and there were CIA's people amongst the crowd and on the cameras upstairs on the third floor that they told us, was not in good enough shape to hold the crowd.

I saw a picture of Mr. George's false teeth and they were not made of wood.
they were plated in a toxic metal form -to rest on his gums, and it had slaves teeth, and animal teeth in it.
I now realize why he never smiled!

I do have a personal Faith in God,
but not the Catholic Way...
a more humble loving approach, not so much pomp and circumstancy!
I do not like when ministers yell at there congragations like "bad children"
when they are only human too.

some people are afraid that science will disprove there is a GOD,
but I am not worried -because I really think it will prove -there is...

peace to your heart Lloyd and thank you for starting this thread.

I received a series of e-mails about this last night. It was suggested that instead of idiopathic Parkinson's Disease, that she has a form of Parkinsonism called Cerebellar Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (CTOS).

In CTOS there is chronic hypoxia due to the pressure of certain muscles - usually around the neck. When the chronic hypoxia affects the basal ganglia in putamen, a decrease in the dopamine production takes place, causing symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

Accompanying the e-mails, and consistent with this, were magnified photographs of the nun's head and neck, showing that she had hypertrophied (bulging) Sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle on the left hand side of the neck.

This coincides with her own reports of the symptoms being on her left hand side, the same side as the hypertrophied muscles.

It was suggested that if she did not do something permanently to the Sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle and the other neck muscles involved, that the symptoms would return.

Mr. Duck:

I want to thank you for your input. This site loses its value if there is no one with your knowledge monitoring our posts.

All the best,


Lloyd