Never over the years have I filled so fulfilled.  Though yes I have Parkinson's Disease and yes I do have Acute RA, I have such an abundance of friends that I am so thankful for. In October of 2007 I logged on to Patientslikeme.com, Parkinson;s Group.  I had never done anything like that before but God surely led me there because my life has completely changed as has the site for it.  At that time there were only a handful of posters on the forum and only 267 members in all.  Today the membership is up to 3700 and growing daily.  we are totally public now and I am in the Parkinson Disease Foundation, Unity Walk, Parkinson Action Network and travel extensively doing actovist work and learning all I can.   One thing we use to do was go to a chat room early in the morning and pretend we wwere in the coffee shop and discuss how we felt and the coming days events and often played around.....Somehow we had drifted away from this, thinking we were too busy and did have time for such sillyness until yesterday when I decided to start it up again.  Tomight we meet at 10:30 Illinois time and spent two hours really having a blast and Parkinson's was not mentioned the whole time...great fun and lots of laughs   both are needed in Parkinson's too    thanks girls and guys     love pokie ... (more)