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Bob Baker writes: > Hello to all. I was diagnosed with PD 1 year ago but had undiagnosed > symptoms for 3 prior years. Age 72. My neuro put me on Eldepryl and > anti-oxidant vitamins. > > I have read where exercise and keeping fit are as important as taking > the medicine. QUITE CORRECT! I am staying as active physically as possible hoping > that the PD progression will be curtailed appreciably. You seem pretty active. > Does anyone have comments, positive or negative, about any exercise > program that might help forestall PD? Someone did you a great favour by giving you that information. Let me tell you a true story: A man who used to be a PT Instructor in the (British) Army, caught PD. It got progressively worse until he was confined to a wheelchair, couldn't dress himself, had to be fed. He was a vegetable, to all intents & purposes - a pitiful case! Something happened (I don't know what) to make him take stock of himself, and he started exercising. I met him at a YAPP&RS meeting a year later when he was standing up giving us a talk on the importance of exercise. Without any doubt at all, he was the fittest and most able person in the room, and that included all the partners and two professional carers! People, who had known him before, were absolutely staggered by the change in him. The message is: YOU CAN GET BACK - But, it's a sight easier not to let yourself get in that state in the first place. He reckoned it was extremely hard and constant effort, but he had nothing to lose! Go figure! > > At this point in life, I view PD as a blessing as it has given me > something that I feel I must overcome. Those who have rocks in their > path often accomplish more that those whose path is unhampered. > > Bob Baker > [log in to unmask] > -- Jeremy Browne, Hampshire, UK [log in to unmask] Shaking Hands BBS, Fidonet 2:252/160 (+44 1252 626233, also FAX)