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I remember my first Neurologist,who could not put a name to why I kept falling on my face, or fanny , just which ever way I leaned. But he made the mistake of asking me, which symptom that I had, besides the balance problem, bothered me the most. I honestly answered him that no longer being able to quilt bothered me the most! The man walked out of the room--he thought it was so trivial! Later he would send me to a team of Neurologists, including the Head of the Neurology Department at the Univ. of Miami in Miami, Florida. They eventually got around to the same question & again I answered honestly-- thinking to myself--"well here goes 5 Neurologists out the door" BUT amazingly, they were not the least bit shocked & answered that I probably would have trouble with "finely coordinated acts" the rest of my life. Boy, they weren't joking. It was 2.5 years before I could thread a needle--I still can't hand quilt-- but DH bought me a Swiss made Sewing Machine that has a knee lift, automatic threader and numerous other thingys which made life much easier. I won 3rd. place with my machine quilted wallhanging last year--the other two were all hand made---- The moral of this story is: WHERE THERE IS A WILL THERE IS A WAY!!!!! Every PWP in the whole world KNOWS that. Just don't give up on anything!!!!!