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hi all At 08:09 PM 2000/02/15 -0800, rosemary wrote to me: >Dear Janet, >... >The quote of Ralph Waldo Emerson >is what prompts me to write to you. > >This time, like all times, is a very good one > If we but know what to do with it. > >Just lately my husband who was diagnosed in 1991 >is beginning to feel the really bad effects of Parkinson's. >He is becoming depressed and talks about how he wishes we >could be like we were 20 -30 years ago. We have had 55 >years of happily married life and I try to think that it >will continue even though it will be different. He talks >like it is nearly over. I 'm going to use those two lines >as a theme for our 55th anniversary on the 26th of >this month. I haven't thought out the details yet but it >is going to be something special. >... >Rosemary Dexter >"Rollin&Rosemary" <[log in to unmask]> hi rosemary i am responding to your private message to me via the list in the hope of helping someone else either now or in the future via the archives. i'm a tad perplexed by the time line here; if your husband was diagnosed with pd in 1991 why is he looking back as far as 20-30 years ago? what do you mean by 'the really bad effects of Parkinson's'? what are his symptoms? what is his current med regimen? if he is apparently 'becoming depressed' and is talking 'like it is nearly over' it sounds to me like he is at great risk for clinical depression and should be receiving medical care for it in addition to but separate from his medical care for pd i feel strongly that a neurologist/movement disorder specialist is the best for pd and a psychiatrist [as opposed to a psychologist] for cd; with the two specialists well aware of the other's work [gasp!] and maybe even co-operating and co-consulting [wheeze!] for the good of the patient [choke!] pd may be incurable [at the moment] but cd is eminently treatable and curable and has been for a long time it took me months to get rid of my worst 'cd episode' of several years duration but i know enough about it and can recognise its insidious onslaught now that i ain't goin back there no more that may be part of the reason i sometimes sound goofy to a lot of parkies; when i am stuck in 'the emotional numbness' and 'paralysis of will' that is cd non-cd-ers and their jolly [read 'normal'] behaviour seem like aliens to me having spent roughly equal numbers of years dealing with pd and cd [as i know them] i still feel that cd can be [has been] the tougher battle simply because my entire life [not just the pd part] gets painted with the uniquely opaque grey paint sold exclusively to the cd 'monkeys' there is a 'ton' of information about cd in the archives including the beck depression inventory test let me know if you want help in digging janet janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset a new voice: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ 613 256 8340 PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario Canada K0A 1A0