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Please help. My father has something bad, he refuses to go to the dr., ever since my Mom died with a brain tumor and was misdiagnosed for quite a while first, he does not believe in doctors. He also says that he doesn't want to know because he will give up, and he knows he will live longer in ignorance. I think he has Parkinson's, Huntington's, ALS? His symptoms started with shaking in his hands, both, I guess, I can't see that one is worse than the other. He just has trembling hands, they shake when he rests, not when he sleeps, his shakes seem to get worse when he reaches for something, he started saying he couldn't talk as well, though we didn't notice anything at first. In a space of two years, he drools pretty bad, and we are starting to not understand him when he talks. He seems to walk ok, though he is slow. In the last year, he has lost at least 30 or 40 lbs, he is very small now, it takes him a long time to eat. His grandfather died from Huntington's disease, but his own father, now 85, doesn't have any of the symptoms, though he shakes a little from old age I'm told. I've never seen him, he abandoned my Dad when my Dad was 2, and I just found this out by contacting my half-uncle. My dad is 59. I want to know if anyone has advice on how I could convince him to go to the dr, or what he might have, or what I can do. We have tried talking to him, bullying him a little, asking, begging, shamelessly using his 2 year old grandson as a reason, but it doesn't seem to work. Does this sound like Parkinson's Disease? If so, how do you treat someone without them participating? I've even been looking into Fava Beans, seeing if I could get enough of them down him somehow to see if it makes a difference, then at least I'd know what he has got? Anyone have any ideas? We love him very much. We are ready to do whatever it takes to take care of him and help him as much as possible. Any advice would be really appreciated.