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Karen D

About Me:: Diagnosed with Young Onset Parkinson's after 13 years of mis-diagnosis. Because symptoms began at age 30, Parkinson's was considered "impossible" (HA! I proved THEM wrong! LOL). Recently designed a line of Awareness Jewelry (I call them Binglez) in which portions of the sales are donated to the corresponding charity(s). It's Giving Back with a little BLING! Take a look: www.binglez.com

Birthday? (not required, but you might get presents!): May 31st

Where do you live? (city, state, country): Northern NJ, USA

Your Zip Code?: 07045

Relationship Status:: Single

Favorite Quote:: "Once you choose hope, anything's possible" (Christopher Reeve)

Favorite Book:: Lots! Currently reading: Steering by Starlight by Martha Beck

Your Website or Blog:: www.binglez.com

What's your personal mission statement?: "In every tear is a seed of healing"...I've created my line of Binglez to be an elegant statement of strength and hope. dedicated to illuminating the spirit of honor, awareness and change.

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Started this discussion. Last reply by Bren Sep 22.

I received this in an email and my first thought was to share this with my most precious friends, that being all of you here at CSL as you have come to define what is truly the meaning of a "friend... Read More »

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Hi Maria! Thank you sooooooo much for this post. I was just about to write basically the exact same sentiments when you beat me to the punch, which made me feel 1000% better as I realize, once aga... Read More »

My Binglez made The Star Ledger!! WHOO HOO
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Started this discussion. Last reply by K&B mom Sep 10.

Hi Everyone! Just giving a shout out to all you guys to let you know my Binglez were written up in The Star Ledger newspaper......Check it out by going to the web page www.binglez.com and click th... Read More »

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At 9:31pm on September 28th, 2008, Elaine Britcher said…: Hi Karen- its nice to meet neighbors. We have friends in Montville. Hope you are well today and that we can meet one day soon.

Elaine

At 3:25am on September 13th, 2008, Nona said…: Hai!

Wow, I love your jewelry! It's beautiful!

Actually, I'm glad to have a reason to be here. The more I think about it, the more I think God for what he gave me. Souds weird, but, I mean, it's changed my life in so many ways. It's given me excelent life experience and knowlege that most people will never have because they will never understand what living with an illness is like.

Yea, there is alot of irony. It sounds bad to say it, but sometimes I wish my illness was fatal so I could just wait and put myself out of my misery. But then, if I were dead, I would miss out on all the lovley little things like writing this comment. I'd rather live and suffer with the ones I love then die alone. Besides, I can really tell that my life is taking a turn for the better. Everything seems to be falling into it's place perfectly...I can just feel it.

Aw...don't fall! I wish I could be there to catch you and help you back up!

Oi, it's weird that God can't just stick us with one weird thing. But like, I zillion others, too. Oh well. It'll turn out alright.

Oh no! I couldn't imagaine having something like that in my art hand! Oi! I'm so so so so sorry! I hope it's doing okay...I want you to be able to make art!

Unfourtunatley now, my move is just a dream. But I visited there, (almost cried tears of joy when I found out I had to go.) and fell in love. My mom didn't like it at all though. She's a clean person, and not a city girl AT ALL. Me, I LOVE crowded places. Since I'm a true nightowl, NY is perfect because there's ALWAYS something going on...the city that never sleeps...dream come true! Hopefully I'll go to college at Juliard and get to move then! If not, I could study ballet in Paris...*another dream is being born right this second...*

Toodles and love,

Nona.

At 12:30am on August 15th, 2008, REO said…: Hi Karen,

Thanks for the update, I was thinking of sending you a little note because I haven't seen you online for a while.

Wow, how is your friend doing now? A single mother with two young children and attempting suicide!!! Thank God, she has you as a close friend. She really needs to think of her children and what they would do without her. I really hope that she starts to see things more clearly. Thank you so much for being there with her. I will include her and her children in my daily thoughts and prayers.

And, how are you doing? Besides being a guardian angel for your close friend and her family, I hope all is going well for you.

Please feel free and know that you can always ramble with me - and I will always listen and be supportive.

There are some CrazySexy Happenings coming up in your NY area soon - how many are you going to attend?

Have you ever met Kris Carr?

And, her new book is starting to circulate - I saw that someone got their copy from Amazon on the website?

I know your life is busy, so, keep in touch when you can.

Keeping you in my thoughts and prayers.

Love & Huggs - Always!!!! :)

Ron

At 9:13pm on August 14th, 2008, Jennifer said…: calming thoughts to your friend..ive been through that situation twice..on the same end you are in..im sending you lots of powerful energy..you and your friend will be in my thoughts.

At 11:07pm on August 6th, 2008, Jennifer said…: Hi Karen,

Wow, thanks for your kind words of support and compliments. It is much appreciated. I will keep you in my prayers Karen. You must be strong if you have found this site and are reaching out to others. =) We all have our struggles and by reaching out to one another I believe it only strengthens us. This site is amazing and has brought together a bunch of amazingly strong, supportive people.

Love & Prayers,
Jen

At 11:21am on August 6th, 2008, Callie said…: You cannot miss you chance with me.. call me anytime anywhere anyway.. all will be here.. just take care and rest easy... love you callie

At 2:10pm on August 5th, 2008, REO said…: Hey,

Thanks for the nice comments.

If you ever have a question, please feel free to ask.

I just noticed on the vitamindcounsel.org website - on the left side - you can Google search just the website - I put in Parkinson's and it found a bunch of articles specific to PD - is that way-cool or what?

Love & Huggs!!! :)

Ron

At 1:45pm on August 5th, 2008, Jen said…: I'm really excited about the meet up!!! Can't wait to meet you too! Ths is so great! It's been a long 9 years since I was diagnosed the 1st time and I never talk about it. I actually just got a little teary when I saw my msg's. Not because of what they said, just because they exist, that this exists. ;)

At 1:21pm on August 5th, 2008, REO said…: Hey Karen,

I hope all is going well.

I came across some interesting information that I wanted to pass along to you.

It's regarding Vitamin (D3).

I'm not sure (just yet) how it relates to Parkinson's - but thought that it might help you to have less colds.

This is a great website - with a free newsletter:

http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/

Here is also a link of a podcast where they talk about Vitamin D. - Click on the KABC link.

http://www.healthytalkradio.com/index.cfm/5160?dateStart=2008-07-20

I figure if you can reduce any colds or the flu - your body can spend more time working on the PD.

Hope this information helps.

Love & Huggs!!! :)

Ron

At 4:22pm on August 3rd, 2008, REO said…: Karen,

Hope all is going well.

Parkinson's Radio/Podcast Show;

http://www.healthytalkradio.com/index.cfm/5160?dateStart=2008-07-20

Hour #3 How to maintain your brain

You can right-click save as to download/save as an MP3 file or just click to play the file on your computer. Interesting show. Talks about how CoQ10 helps delay Parkinson's as well as black tea. They also talk about a product: Prevagen

http://www.prevagen.com/default.aspx

The show is worth listening to and the prevagenn site is worth reading up on.

Hope this information helps.

Love & Huggs!!! :)

Ron