People from all walks of life and from all points of the United States where there representing  different nationalities, religions and races.  Patients and doctors, authors and statesmen, all ate together, laughed and cried together. We were there to ask for a cure for this beast of a disease and they were there to tell us someone was noticing that Parkinson's was not just in the nursing homes. There were 37 year old fathers with3 year old sons who had Parkinson's.  There were newscasters who had to change the course of their whole life because they had gotten this disease. Their was a single mom who had raised five kids and then came down with Parkinson's.  She has had Parkinson's for 23 years and never met another person with it because she was in rural Georgia and the diagnoses was not given there. There was Parkinson's Disease presented in every possible way.....tremors and no tremors...walking and not walking...riving and some you would never know they had PD.  For three days we were all one, united as a huge force trying to figure out what each of us could do to stop this now before it moved to the next generation.

What do we do?  We do not turn our heads when someone presents this disease like Michael J. Fox does.  Look him in the eye and talk to him about it....It is not a sin to have Parkinson's.  For me today, it is an honor to say God has given me this trial and I am attacking it with everything I have. 

 There is one thing you must understand.  When I walk a walk for Parkinson's I do not walk for me.  I am 61 and I know a cure will not come in my time, but I have grandchildren fourteen, eight, four and 10 weeks and I hope in their day there will be no Parkinson's Disease to strike them down in there prime like Polio struck so many in an earlier time....When our youth were in danger a cure was found.....OUR YOUTH ARE IN DANGER...................pokie