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Hi Jennifer, First of all, I am glad you enjoyed Linda Herman's book "When Parkinson's Strikes Early". My late wife Donna and I are quoted in it. Linda and her husband Ed have been good friends of mine for almost as many years as I have had PD. I was diagnosed 15 years ago and stopped driving 5 years ago. I drove a small car, a Toyota Corrola. When I was still driving I had to hold the steering wheel tight because of my tremors. I could not talk to anyone or let my mind wander. I had to concentrate totally on driving. Finally I felt my cognitive skills were too poor for me to continue driving. As PD is a designer disease it affects everyone differently. I know people who have been diagnosed almost as long as I have and are still comfortable dring. I know others who have quit driving 6 or 7 years after being diagnosed. Keep driving as long as you are comfortable and safe doing it. Welcome to the community, John 61/15 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jennifer Gaudio" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 8:08 AM Subject: Question-driving > Morning, > I have a question for the community. I'm finding I have increased > difficulty parking and turning. I drive an 06 saturn view inherited by my > parents, which is a nice car but huge and not good on maneuvering to begin > with. I'm fine with everything else but parking and turning and have got > into a couple of fender-benders in parking lots. I suspect its the > weakness in my left arm. > Has anyone else experienced this in onset? Or am I being hypersensitive? I > am thinking of buying a smaller more easily maneuverable car (with better > gas mileage :)), but the expense would pinch and if I didn't have to do it > I shouldn't. > best,Jen > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows 7: Unclutter your desktop. > http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9690331&ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_evergreen:112009 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn