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Carole you wrote...."Several months ago, I voluntarily decreased my hours from 40 to 30. I thought I could maintain at that level for a while, since I worked in the out-patent part of the hospital, with regular hours, M-F, more stable patients,and lots of computer/desk duties, with frequent opportunities to rest..." so that tells me you see the need to take care of YOURSELF.... Your question to yourself should be: "Will my PD get worse with all the stress and very little rest if I take the new position?????" In 1998 we had some drastic high stress changes at my job for a few months and my neuro appt happened to be in the middle of the changes...although I felt I was doing fine she told me she didn't like the way I was beginning to walk because of my "new found stress" and was very insistent that I was through working THAT DAY as it was taking a toll on me...and ..because you just can't undo damage to your body/brain/etc.....and I cried and cried....I was not mentally ready to accept being in another category....still not accepting the damned PD (diagnosed '97), on disability, retirement, being home all day after 29 years with the same company, etc.... it took me several months to adjust and she was right...you don't need the stress...Life and pd is hard enough without adding daily/hourly stress stituations.... I'm so glad the neuro made me do it....you're getting very valuable direction re how to apply from people on the list .... you might also want to check out Greg Stirling's site www.angelfire.com/pe2/firingpin/ssdi.html ....he's got tons of really good info on there.......Greg used to post on the list ....Greg are you still with us.... Good luck, Carole.... Joan Hartman --- Joan Hartman --- [log in to unmask] --- EarthLink: It's your Internet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn