Just what is a Parkie in the Foresrt

Funny you should ask that. About 4 years ago I was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, many are familiar with it because of Michael J Foxn but there are so many more of us and basically we all have our own version of this degenerative disease. Parkinson's was disscribed to me once as many as 20+ different diseases rolled into one. The one really bad thing is it is an incurable degenerative brain disorder.  Everyone of us who has it willdie with it, maybe not because of it ñ but what will happen is as the inability of the brain to produce and use dopamine things will stop working. Most I guess will die from a form of pneumonia n caused by thr inability to swallow properly. Many think of it as an old persons disease and I guess at one time that may have been true. It is however showing up in people as young as 17. There is wide speculation as to why that is, but that is for another time.

I am here to explain what this "Parkie in the Forest" thing is. For 27 years I was an airline pilot and my wife was a flight attendant,  who later became a veterinary technician.  I was diagnosed with what will here to fore be called as pd "Parkinson's disease and I myself am a pwp or person with Parkinson's. It made as you might think a major change in my life. As time goes on I will explain what the changes were, are, and still happening. My wife a couple of years later had double carple tunnel surgery and ended up with severe nerve damage in her hands and wrists. Now contrary yo what you mighy think this is it is not a pitty party for us. We are moving foward with out lives doing as much as we can to take on a world we know something about. We are going into the Forest to work at what we can. This summer we will be working in a national campground chain and blogging about how 2 disabled people can function.  The company does not know yet who we are but at no time will we ever blame a short fall on our part on anyone but us. Our goal is to show how much we can stil contribute to society d's and support of ourselves in general. We have a great job set up for this summer and maybe next.

What I really want is for those of you who read our site to like it , share it, and comment on it. People who you may just walk by and ignore have a lot to give, all we need is a chance. I am not a real believer in the notion that God set this all up for me. I know that what I have done I pretty well did it to and for myself. My feeling is if God gave me pd to see how I would handle it then things like Super Novas and Galaxies coliding must be pretty be pretty boring. I'll shake and deteriorate for another 10 to 20 years these other thinhgs happen over millions of years.

All we want to do is deal with te day to day thingsn our struggle to help each other and all the other battles we win and lose along the was.
But again please stay with us comment and help get a real discussin going.