Archive for August, 2009
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Posted by mneshati in Succeeding After The Parkinsons Diagnosis on August 22, 2009
Within two or three days of receiving my Parkinsons diagnosis I had scoured all the websites I could find on the disease and found most of them confusing and not very inspiring. I made a decision in that first week to keep cruising down the highway of life and never waste a minute of time looking the rear view mirror.
To live well and comfortably and continue to accomplish all you wish to in life, be sure to get a good Parkinsons specialist, most tend to be Neurologists, this Dr. will need to work closely with your General Practitioner to coordinate what is best for you. Mine is Doctor Wasseem Ibrahim In Riverside CA, An outstanding, caring, compassionate and well informed Doctor.
He has worked with me to keep the desease in check, and allowing me to live life fully.
Day Two Life is Grand, face each day with Joy, optimisim and gratitude
Posted by mneshati in Succeeding After The Parkinsons Diagnosis on August 20, 2009
On the day I was diagnosed with Parkinsons I was still a few months shy of my 49th birthday. I went home and scoured the Internet for information. Sadly every page I went to was full of gloom and doom. How drastically life would change.
I wanted encouragement, I wanted positive messages. I am not one to let setbacks get to me, but I couldn’t find anything. I am writing this blog in hopes that anyone who is diagnosed with Parkinsons either recently or has been dealing with it and finds this site will read stories of success, of celebration, of confronting obstacles and working through or around them.
It has now been five years since the diagnosis, I still work 16 hours or more per day, play my drums, work on my 1966 Chevelle restoration project all weekend long, roll and tumble with my grand kids, and play golf as terribly as always.
I want you to know that a Parkinsons diagnosis is just a new chapter of your life, not a bad one just another one. Hold your head high, move on, be positive and face each day with joy, optimisim and gratitude and life will continue too be great.
More tomorrow
Day 1
Posted by mneshati in Succeeding After The Parkinsons Diagnosis on August 19, 2009
this site is intended to provide a day to day chronicle of living with and succeeding in life after a Parkinsons diagnosis at a fairly young (49) age.