Don and Jan Medley
You are such a blessing. When I first began to research PD and was
being treated for it, I was looking at so much mystery. I still am, but there
are some realities I can now attach to the nightmares that may make them a
little less like nightmares. I was told that if I was a 'good girl' and took my
medication and did the exercises I could look forward to 20 or 30 years of
declining use of my body before I would be bound to a bed or wheelchair. On the
other hand it could go somewhat quicker. I thought '30 years from now I will be
76, my families average life span is 95, what about the other 20 years??????
Then I met a woman who was diagnosed in her 40's, like me, and started out with
the same meds. 8 months after her diagnosis she was having brain implant
surgery so that she would not be confined to a wheelchair.
SO, how long do I have, and does it matter????
Knowing that you have lived with early onset now for 20 or more years
gives me solid hope that I will be in the same catagory. Thanks.
Marling McReynolds [log in to unmask]
