PDPLUSCATS and wine !!!

Barbara Wilmarth APRN, GNP, Clinic Coordinator for Movement Disorders Clinic (at Georgetown University) will be speaking at the Rockville JCC on PD and exercise on SUNDAY JULY 17th at 2:15. Along with Barbara will be Janice Salit (DPT) . She will talk about the BIG exercise program as well as other programs in exercise for PD. COME, you might learn something you didn't know !!! 

And there won't be any cats or wine. Just valuable information. Tell  you friends and family , with or without PD. Be a life long learner.

see ya
Diane

This is my family .....my PD family.........
Upper left is Solomon my great grandfather who my mother said had a "palsy"....thats what they called PD in the 40's and 50's.Next in the upper right is 2 pics of my grandmother Sarah (young and older) PD (I remember her well). Then mid left is my mothers brother Irv who  had PD later in life (78+). Next is my mother Lola and bottom left is me. The pictures (I know) are not very clear but I wanted to put them on all together. 4 generations. 
I have the LRRK 2 gene for PD. A person can have the LRRK gene and NOT develop PD. Or you can get PD without the gene. Doctors have recommended that my adult children NOT be tested since there are no guarantees either way.

My Grandma was the oldest of nine and the only 1 to develop PD.
My mother had 3 siblings and it was 2/4 with PD.
I have 1 sister and she doesn't have PD  1/2
so !!!  according to my calculations the next generation should be 0/2 . NO MORE PD....It stops with me !!!!! 

Thanks

This is little Diane (in 1st grade??) This is how I felt in the Apple Store like I was just learning to read. Anyway, just now I took a picture of the picture, loaded it on the computer, and was able to put it in the blog. Yea me !!!!
Enjoy the weekend !!!

Heres a few more of my collections

bird houses

little houses and log cabins

music favorites

a few monkeys

MORE PIX

monkey collection

cats

I am at the mall waiting for my turn at the Apple Store to continue working on putting pictures ..on the blog. A guy name Jeff (waiting his turn) showed me how to do it.......yeah right.........
Anyway this pic is part of the blog (plus cats)........Lilywhite is resting on the cat bed in the section of the basement that is the cat display area
This is  a picture of Monkey. She likes Ledos.
More later.

Lola

This is a picture of my mother Lola. She was loving and intelligent and well read and athletic and politically active and had Parkinsons. I have spent some  time this week looking at old photos of family members who had Parkinsons and will try posting them as well.
The computer guy was here today so managed to post this picture... no promises doing the pics by myself !!!! 
My new granddaughter (Jaime's sister) is Lola.

June 10 Friday
WHAT IS WRONG WTH YOU ?????????

WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?????

I have now seen 6 doctors and the consensus is that I

1. have pain in my thigh, hip, butt and upper left leg

2. have bursitis  and arthritis and other variable "itises"

AND WHY YOU ASK ????

Because of my Parkinson's and artificial hip and calcaneal break I walk differently and my unsteady gate leads to difficulty walking , balancing and therefore , subsequently pain.


NOW WHAT?????

Ice ,   Heat ,   Physical Therapy,   Advil ,  Analgesic balm,   (maybe) acupuncture,   ice cream ,  m and m's,  yoga, Tai Chi,   stretching,  complaining,  moving furniture and rocks, the usual.

I'm dreaming about trips to NY and Wisconsin when I can (I hope soon)

NO MORE MEDICAL UPDATES FOR A WHILE UNLESS IT IS GOOD NEWS ONLY !!!(ok?)

I will try to be more diverse in my blogs ......will take requests !!!!!!!!!!

Happy WHATEVER .......................

Travels in the Medical Land

June 3

Dr. Heel said see Dr. Hip
Dr. Hip said its bursitis
We will try a cortisone shot
It won't hurt a lot (it did!)

10 days later still in pain
Dr. Hip says its time to see Dr. Back
Dr. Back says could be a nerve
Another shot (in vain?)

10 days later lots of pain
Now Dr. Back suggests we do a spinal bloc
Confused, starting to scare
I called my trusted  Primary Care (dr)

She said see a neurosurgeon , get his opinion
He said NO don't get a bloc
Get a different hip doc
And a physiatrist too

So here we go again
next week we'll see what helps
MRI and M and M's in hand
Into HEALTH CARE LAND.........