Stories

I was 45 when i was finally given a diagnosis i knew i wasn't 100% but couldn't put my finger on it. looking back now the first thing I noticed...

It is a long journey of ten years leaving with PD. I worked as a child care worker. I was not diagnosed yet, though the symptoms were knocking on the...

Bill woke early on this glorious morning, knowing he's par 3 golfing with his best buddies at Wade's Hampton. He arrives early as usual, but of course, his cohorts are...

You have Parkinson's disease is something we didn't expect to hear. It's a quiet debilitating disease. Four years in and the Doctors are telling us..."If you can, travel NOW!" So...

My husband had early onset PD. We noticed a tremor in his pinky finger shortly after our first son was born almost 16 years ago. My husband turns 50 tomorrow...

Seven years ago when my husband, John, first started to exhibit signs of dementia, I was scared and worried about what this meant for our future. I remember praying every...

In Feb 2011 whilst painting the house Baz slipped a disc and whilst in hospital was diagnosed with severe aortic stenosis and was advised a valve replacement. At the same...

As I live each day as it comes, here is what I'm doing right now, in the seventh year after my diagnosis. I am waiting to go back home, after...

I sat in the neurologist’s office 4 years ago when she looked up at me and said, “you have Parkinson’s." As I made my way to my car, still dazed...

My husband was diagnosed with Parkinson's three years ago. He has severe back pain. We have seen an orthopedic doctor for two years and he gets the steroid shots for...

It sucks I was diagnosed in 2013 still not dealing. I still ask why I was doing good the first two years then it started going down hill. my anxiety...

My girlfriend and I used to joke that the most fitting epitaph for us both was "Now What". Life was just one adventure after the other for us then. We...

Dear fellow Parkies, does this resonate? Things have been going pretty well. Your own particular blend of symptoms have sorted out their pecking order, stiffness and joint pain mostly in...

I grappled with symptoms of PD for years before I was diagnosed. I was treated for depression, carpal tunnel, muscle stiffness, joint pain, nerve pain, etc., etc., and suffered awful...

Since I was a child, I had tremors in my hands, my father used to say "is because you are nervous" medicated with Valium or Librium. Nothing ever worked. At...

I was diagnosed with polymyositis through a muscle biopsy on my left leg which I never recovered from it. I have had polymyositis until I had another blood test about...

My name is Gary, I am 72yrs young. I was diagnosed one year ago and it was a life changing experience. I have taken a very aggressive approach in dealing...

In my early thirties, my doctor diagnosed me with a familial tremor, “It is most likely a familial tremor... it probably is not Parkinson’s disease since it does not run...

Who I am and what I do. Tiberio Roda, born in Lecco, Italy on 04-04-1955 I have three brothers and three sisters and a 90 y.o. father. I am divorced...

My husband has had PD for almost 6 years. Two months ago he was diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis. What we thought was a PD problem turned out to be from...