Hello David, I was diagnosed with young onset PD in Nov 2008. I am married and have a 12 year old son. I watched the program online and was overwhelmed with emotions. It touched me in so many ways. Gratefulness, fear, sadness but most strikingly and predominantly a renewed sense of HOPE and DETERMINATION. Thank you for producing it and for reminding me that there is always hope. Looking forward to the live online discussion after the broadcast on Tuesday. Warm regards, Janice

David Kudos to you and your team for creating "My Father, My Brother, and Me". I found the film to be well balanced in relationship to the details of the disease, resulting impact to a "real person", and hope for the future. Since being diagnosed with PD 7 years ago at the age of 42, I realize that friends and family know very little about the disease. Your work will provide much needed information thereby increasing the public's understanding of PD. Thank you and PBS for making the film accessible online. I enjoyed watching it. Sincerely Bob

Since being diagnosed in 1998, I have maintained a healthy attitude towards having PD but I wish that the search for a "cure" would materialize. I have done research on the use of stem cells for treatment of PD in China and Europe. Would you say that it still to early to try this form of treatment? I know that it is outlawed at this point in the USA but I'm hoping President Obama will change the policy and let the USA begin to do research into the use of stem cells for many diseases or injuries (brain-injured). Thank you

Thanks for these comments ... it really means a lot to me if it strikes the right cord within the PD community ... and please encourage people to participate in our post broadcast discussion!

That was a beautiful program. My late dad and I shared Parkinson's, and your story felt profoundly familiar, and moving. I'm a writer, a family therapist, a poet, and an educator, andd was raised to be a political activist, as well. I've had PD for over 10 years now, and am privileged to live in Brooklyn, NY, where I have been part of the Mark Morris dance class for five years, a singing class at the same location, and also participate in a twice-weekly exercise class clinical trial, which is at LIU. The dance and exercise regimen is vital for all of us in our ongoing abilities to remain active and creative participants in society, and I supplement it with 4 miles on my recumbent bike daily. This is in addition to my work for the past five or more? years as a congressional coordinator for the Parkinson's Action Network (PAN)(which MJ Fox helped to found,with Joan Samuelson.) I deeply believe that the hundreds of active and passionate folks from all over the world, living with 10/20/35 years of PD, who I meet at PAN events, and in my Brooklyn Parkinson's classes, are doing so well because not only exercise, but also advocacy and creative work, each undoubtedly are also neuro-generative, and neuro-protective. It would be great to mention PAN in online discussion,because even with the hope of Obama's supporting federal funding for stem cell research, we need everyone we can to either call their elected rep.'s in Congress, or go to DC this March for PAN's annual Forum, to meet with their elected officials and beg for research funding to cure PD, even with the economic crisis. Thank you again for touching my soul with your PBs special. best, Leonore Gordon