My Experience of Parkinsons Disease

Parkinsons Disease. ~ So why am I writing this? ~ Basically, I have not just one experience of a family member with Parkinson's, but three. The first was my maternal grandmother, who I only ever remember as having Parkinsons. Later, my father's brother was diagnosed with Parkinson's while in his late forties, and in late 2002, some 4 years after his brother - so was my father. ~ What is Parkinsons and the causes of it? ~ As yet there is no definitive cause for Parkinsons. But its effects are the same - A loss of nerve cells in the brain, which are responsible for producing a chemical known as Dopamine. ...

I don't know whether it's just me but when I hear people taking the p*ss out of people that shake, I always hear them refer to Parkinson's Disease. I'm an extremely jolly person always happy, however when I hear these cruel remarks, I snap into something that I didn't know I had inside me and give people a piece of my mind. I quite surprise myself sometimes but I can't bear it because I lost the closest person to me, the person that meant the most to me and I thought would be around forever and when he wasn't it broke my heart, 12 years later it still does when I think about it. I can see this turning into a long review to be honest but at the end of the day ...

This opinion is sans spellcheck, in fact it's straight from the depths of me because my Mam has Parkinson's (PD). If only the disease was as amiable as the talkshow host. But sadly it isn't. It all started about two years ago. Being a psychology graduate (yes, I am mentioning that again!) I always thought a little knowledge was a dangerous thing and tried to keep what I learnt from textbooks far from the family home. But something wasn't right with my Mam, her handwriting was different, almost spidery and she seemed to have slowed down. So I read and read and urged her to press her GP for tests. First he diagnosed depression, now this ...