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Anyone live in or near the Tidewater VA area? VA Beach, Hampton, Poquoson, Chesapeak, even maybe Richmond or Fredricksburg?

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rch21

I am in Williamsburg - so fairly close

hmmm would be nice to get a little group together - support and all. the only support group down here is mostly very elderly people, God bless them, but not what i need at this point.

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Im in Rockville Va but we have a young onset support group that meets once a month in Mechanicsville va

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That's awesome. My son and his family live in ruther glen. How young Is young onset? I am 61

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officially diagnosed at age 51 but my family dr went back and looked over my chart I had a tremor in one of my fingers of my right hand back when I was in my early 20's. Our young onset group has folks our age Im 53. Your welcome I will get the address for you

parkinsons.va.gov/Richmond/...

If you go to the link you can learn about what we have up here. I go to the exercise class at teh John Rolfe YMCA on Mon, tues andthhurs 11-12. There are a variety of ages. I also fo to the Parkinson support group on the first Tues of the month at Circle center and The education group the third Sunday at 2 at Health South plus the Young onset group the fourth Sunday of the month.

Richmond, VA;

4th Sunday, 2 p.m., Church Office young onset group

of St. Paul Lutheran Church, Mechanicsville, VA;

contact Andrea Perseghin at 804-828-3747 or

pdcenter@vcu.ed

Richmond

1st Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm,

(Discussion); Circle Center, 4900 W. Marshall St.,

(behind Krispy Kreme on Broad St.). Contact

Ann Spinks; (804) 355-5717

3rd Sunday at 2 pm at Health South (Educational);

5700 Fitzhugh Avenue. Contact Kathy Morton;

(804) 730-1336

Also have you gone to the support group in williamsburg

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blessed4431

Here you can find a link to all the support group in the state of Virginia

parkinson.va.gov/Richmond/S...

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blessed4431

cant get the whole link to copy. Just google parkinson support groups virginia

Thank you SO MUCH!!!

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blessed4431

maybe we can meet in the middle one day for lunch. If we find out where everyone is. Im in Rockville Va

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That would be great! I'm in Hampton

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salon

i live in ashland ky.

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