Ken Giuffre, MD from John's Hopkins ~ quora.com/profile/Ken-Giuffre
I am a doctor and have had Parkinson's disease for 7 years diagnosed and 12 years total. I made two campy video animations that describe my experiences through the character Dr. Marshall Davidson.
1. Early-onset Parkinson's Disease: One Man's Account
2. 10 key non-movement symptoms of Parkinson's that everybody ought to know about
I liked , very informative. Some new facts I did not know. Also entertaining. Thanks doc.
I was diagnosed 4 years ago. So thankful i only have some of these symptoms. Very good. Thank you.
My husband was not diagnosed with Parkinsons until he was 72 .. He is 82 now and advanced .
We met in early our twenties and he told me before we married that he would get nightmares and a poor sleeper . Had been more or less since a young boy . His mother and father use to shout at him to be quiet and get back in bed " fell down the stairs one time . They took him to their GP who told them his brain didn't switch off !!.
Once married I soon got use to it and I would reach out and calm him .
He worried most evening before he got into bed . We just lived with it ..
We all just get use to little things in our lives that might irritate you , you learn to live with it .
Never able to stand in queue , I though he was just impatient , he would easily get impatient , We just lived with it. . he wasn't and still isn't a nasty man and funnily enough at our first appt with the consultant he mentioned he had noticed himself how much more patient he had become. I suppose that was the apathy had kicked it . It had some for years but when things happen so gradually you dont notice it .you just live with it ,
Whenever he tried to anything with his hands , mending something , using a can opener .putting anything together he found all that very hard .
I use to tell him he was mechanically dyslexic .
He signed his post office saving s book and they wouldn't pay him out told him It wasn't the same signature. He couldn't walk UP a slope unless he pushed himself , couldn't go slowly .
The only thing he ever complained about was very painful shoulder or sciatica .
All this was happening in our twenties We just loved with it . I didn't know any different he had always been like it .
Other than the impatience and being an awful worrier he would also obsess . It wasn't a problem to me . I just for on with it
He slowed down in his sixties and didn't want to mix as much , always had been very sociable . He suddenly got anxious and even afraid .
We are atill continuing to live with it but it is very much harder now of course .
Th signs had been wth us from the start but we didn't have an idea it was anything other than normal . This is our normal now .
Nice to see you've lived , loved & stayed a team. Credit to both of you.
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