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My advice would be to take care of your future while living in the
present.  In other words, see to your potential future needs for
healthcare, living situation (sell the 3-storey Victorian for a nice
ranch adaptable for handicap), and start taking optimal care of
yourself now.  And if there is anything you've been thinking about
doing for years, do it and enjoy it, before you have to try to arrange
for special accomodations, before things get more difficult for you.

But first, don't be afraid to seek 2nd and 3rd opinions.  There are
many neurological afflictions with some similar characterisitics.  Be
sure that your issues are being correctly defined.

Good luck.
Rick


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Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 5:13 PM
Subject: Looking for advice


>I have recently been tentatively diagnosed by a neurologist as having
>the
> beginning stages of Parkinson's - tremors in right hand and arm.
> Some  feeling
> of instability and awkwardness of gait (not observed by physician,
> but  felt
> by me daily as unsteadiness).  What can I expect in the next 6
> months  to a
> year.  I have a followup appointment in November.  At this point  no
> meds have
> been prescribed and not further diagnostic tests are on the horizon
> beyond the
> original screening exam done in my first appointment.  Is there  a
> "typical"
> progression of the disease, either in increased symptoms or time
> frame for
> further deterioration of motor skills?
> I first noticed the tremor in February of this year and visited the
> neurologist on the advice of my primary care physician in late
> August.  Any  advice
> would be helpful.  Thanks
>
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