Stories

Better living through denial – whenever I look at the printed coaster on my desk I smile, thinking of the client who gifted it to me. She had been a...

I honestly thought I would grow old, sit in a rocking chair on my porch and drink tea with my friends. Instead, I am now 83 years old and the...

I have had Parkinson's for almost 4 or 5 years. I have been diagnosed. I have a lot of pain just get from a sitting position to start to walk...

It’s very hard at times, I love my husband dearly, but it’s getting more difficult for me. I have had Parkinson's for more than 15 yrs and I have been...

I am Nicolae Stan (Nicolas) from Bucharest-Romania, 72 years old. I was diagnosed with Parkinson disease (PD) in 2015, almost a year after a severe winter cold that left me...

I was running a very profitable businesses in the hospitality industry. In 1990 it all started when I went to get out of bed to go to work. As the...

In June of 2020, I walked into my neurologist office, sat down and was told your brain is not functioning correctly. I asked what that means. I was told it...

In 2009 retired from the fire department after 35 years. I moved to Georgia and started having some tremors in my hands, and I was advised by my primary doctor...

I was in my mid-late 50's when the motor, smell, and severe R.L.S. sent me searching for answers I did not want to have. "Parkinson's. Oh don't worry. It's not...

I have noticed a tremor for about a year. More recently it has become noticeable to others. The Movement center at RI Hospital diagnosed Parkinson’s. I’m a little shocked, but...

I worked 28 years in a foundry while my wife was working in the medical devices facility and was diagnosed with Parkinson's in about 1991. She had a D.B.S. put...

I’ve been wanting to share my story for some time, but never actually sat down to give it a go. It’s 2:05 a,m. and my inability to rejoin the sleeping...

I was diagnosed at roughly 35. I am now 59. My PD has progressed slowly until about 5 yrs ago when my Mom was diagnosed with PD. I was her...

I am now 69 years old and still find going to work early a way of living with my disease. I was diagnosed by neurologist about 5 years ago, but...

My husband was diagnosed in 2009. Was on dopamine agonists. Within months developed compulsive behavior (sexual) left me for 3 months, had taken up with another woman. Specialist stopped them...

I’m in the elderly category, have Parkinson’s and CKD, and, due to coronavirus, have been in deep isolation for over nine months. In an attempt to inject a little humor...

I was diagnosed with Parkinson's 5 years ago, and boy how time flies. Then I tore my right quadriceps tendon and had surgery. "No more ladders", said my neurologist, ending...

His arms stopped swinging, then the vein in his right hand started to twitch, then the hand started to cramp while typing. It took a year of multiple visits to...

The Parkinson’s Foundation describes apathy as a “lack of interest, enthusiasm or motivation. It interferes with the effective management of Parkinson’s disease (PD) symptoms, since apathetic people are less inclined...

About five years ago I first took notice of the trembling in my left hand. Indications might have taken place earlier, but as my wife and friends will tell you...