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>Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 09:56:28 -0500 >From: Anne Rutherford <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: I Can't write - do I have company? > >HI All >I am posting this for one of our chapter members. > She has been >wondering if she is the only person with Parkinsons who can't >write----Not just writing very small---- but hardly able to sign her >name. When I asked her how she managed in the kitchen she said she could >no longer even crack an egg. Now that is pretty hard to tolerate, being >beaten by an egg. :-( >Problems with slowness and balance are not so aggravating, and anyway >they are improved by medication, while the hand is not. >Does anyone else have this much difficulty with their hands when it is >four years or so since diagnosis?I will pass on your responses. >Thanks > >Anne Rutherford <<[log in to unmask]>> > Anne: Tell your friend that I have been diagnosed less than a year, symptomatic for less than two, and if I have to write more than my signature I use the computer. I continue to work as an engineering manager in a large, multi-national corporation, my balance and gait are generally ok, but my hand hurts so quickly trying to write that I quickly give up. My diagnosing neuro. suggested switching to my left hand for writng, but I haven't had the motivation to attempt that yet. A couple of things I have done to unload handwriting: checkbook and monthly bills are now handled with Quicken software online; lots of short memos printed out instead of Post-it notes (I'd love to find a special purpose printer to handle Post-its); lots of EMAIL instead of notes. Rich Thompson Eldepryl only 2x5mg