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Marvin.... I'm not ready to stop driving entirely yet, but I try really hard to HONESTLY assess my "drive-ability" on a day-by-day basis (and sometimes on an hour-by hour basis) and IF I'm THAT "off," or have PD-related vision or balance problems, I absolutely won't drive then. That "self-honesty" has been tough. Eventually I realized while I couldn't control what the PD was doing to my vision or balance, I COULD control what I did within the parameters placed upon me by the disease. That caused me to become MUCH more creative in finding quality medical, general, and social resources locally, if possible. Then there's those occasional days when my meds seem to stubbornly refuse to work in any recognizable patterns, and FINALLY - just this past year actually - I've learned to say "the heck with it all." Then I sit down with a kitty on my lap and pick up a "great-to-reread-book" from my collection, turn on the radio to a favorite talk program, or maybe some mellow country-western music and just "go with the flow." YIKES!! I've never really analyzed it before but less or no driving means a LOT more than just not getting behind the wheel, doesn't it! Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] ---------- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange on behalf of Giles Sent: Sunday, June 21, 1998 6:32 AM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: Re: When a Male's at the Wheel Thank You Barbara. I can still drive, but I don't. I know I'm not safe, reflexes a bit too slow even when I'm on. Marvin