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Since I am new on this list, if I repeat what others have already said, I am sorry. Please let me know what you have been talking about, or what is most important to you. Like Mr. Walker, I am a researcher by profession, and a casemanager/crisis counselor. If you can imagine, the counselor needing a counselor or a doctor needing a doctor. It can be very difficult. I know all the words and techniques people will try to give me. But, I cannot make them work most of the time for me. I know that I must live with this thing, but sometimes I still look too far into the future. I cannot stand the thought that I will be completely helpless someday. David, even though I have my son at home, I am all alone with the PD and gout and everything else. I wish.......I don't know what to wish for. The disease to just go away? or to die and get it over? or to have someone to share it with? I don't know. I heard a story about how God makes everything even out in the end. There was an elderly couple. She had arthritis so bad that there were days she hardly moved at all. Her husband had PD, perpetual motion. At night they went to bed side by side. He would slide his hand under her neck and the tremor would gently massage her to sleep. Then he would remove his hand and turn over to sleep himself, and all was still. Love to all Marling McReynolds [log in to unmask]