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All this wisdom mustn't be lost

Posted by Weston on August 16, 2001 at 23:50:35:

To Sandman,

From a mercifully-mild-suffering N from the UK (10 excellent months on provigil @ just 100mg a day).

I'm short of superlatives to describe this forum. My main reason for writing is to ask a terribly techie question - are you keeping backup copies of these messages ?

Perhaps it's a daft notion, but I'd be surprised and disappointed if news doesn't leak out to the wider non-N world of the gallons of wisdom, humour, philosophy and empathy I've read in here this long night!! Your archives are a gold-mine, and simply *must* be safeguarded.

I found you around midnight (UK time) and haven't stopped reading, laughing, crying and exclaiming until now (7:00am). I'm now off to bed for a half-day's sleep and I'll be dreaming of Kara, chucker, Sammy, student, Amaranth (aka Truly aka Tired-Or-Wired) and all. Then I'll be back for more!

I'm a 'young' 51 y/o father of two young adults, and in just one night, contributers to this forum have mentioned almost every aspect of my 40-plus years of friendship-testing, teacher-annoying, marriage-straining, children-bewildering Narcolepsy symptoms. But *so* much more too. And even mentioned this daft indulgence of staying awake all night!!

When my multiple sleep latency test confirmed what I had, I refused to accept the label 'narcolepsy' and took quite a few weeks to accept the 'truth' - but heck! if my doctor had been able to point me at this powerful powerful forum a year ago . . . my silly fear of the N word would have evaporated in a blink.

Surely your wonderful words must get a wider audience ??
I'll certainly be adding a link from my web-site.

Hold on to your hopes

Love and thanks to you all,
Weston

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