Thank you for sharing that.

I even have trouble walking up a street that's even slightly inclined!

The saddest part of this sometimes devistating disease is that one of my brothers had it, and he did not follow his doc's orders, loved to party and drink and still ate unhealthy He was taking his meds, but the alcohol consumption that he enduldged in had caught up with him.

He had a stroke and died several days later on Chistmas morning, '04 from a cardiac arrest. It was very sad, painful and devistating to have to lose him!! He was my closest brother. He would always want me to go to SC and visit him, which I always happily did.

My last trip there was the sad one. Watching him lie in that casket, I just couldn't deal with that, broke down and cried for a few days. Even today, I still cry if I think about him hard enough.