Me and PD #2

     For all of you that have given me positive feedback about this blog, I thank you! It's nice to know that people are interested in learning about my gift. Today was a hard day. I went to work and it takes awhile for my meds to kick in. I wake up at 5:00 and right away take my meds but I'm at work by 6:30 and my tremor is still pretty well doing it's thing, but calms down after awhile. I only work part time (3 days a week), do to fatigue. I work at JC Penney in sales support, so I work in a lot of different areas, doing a lot of different things. Every day is different which is what I like. I love the people I work with. I been there going on about five years and have made a lot of close friends and they have been very supportive of my condition! Judy my immediate supervisor, cuts me no slack, and challenges me to do things that are not easy, but yet are good for me mentally as well as physically. I'm going to work as long as I can, because it's good for me and besides what else would I do?
      Anxiety can be a symptom of PD, and is one of mine, I find I don't like crowds, or a lot of noise and activity. When I get nervous or anxious my tremor is really more pronounced. So going to Wal-Mart on a Saturday afternoon will turn me into a blur. I'm glad I went to a lot of concerts when I was younger, (some of them I even remember,) because I couldn't handle one now! 
     Did you know Nebraska has the highest rate of Parkinson's disease per capita in the world? No one has completely figured out why, but they think it has to do with pesticides, maybe getting in the ground water. This is just a theory, no one knows for sure. There are many things that they believe causes PD, but I'll get into that later. I won't blog every day, but I'll try to do a couple a week. I'll talk about the future, the present, and for you people that can handle it, I'll even visit the past here and there. That should be a wild ride! I'll talk about my days with PD good and bad. I'll get into what is going on as far as research, different medications and how they work, and the various resources for people with PD and their caregivers and family members or just friends of people with PD. That's all for today. Thanks for listening and stay tuned.