It seems that Parkinson's affects people in very different ways. Your confusion and dismay are logical responses to your situation * as is being a tad angry about your limitations. There are some things that help. One is excercise. Another is to keep a daily log of how you feel and things you've dobe to try to feel better (walking, keeping well- hydrated,, which foods you eat, et . This can help you see where you might be getting the most "bang for the buck"so you can see which things are most helpful to you. Share this info with your doctor so he can consider other things that might improve how you feel. Each of us has a different experience with old mr P, and we just have to keep tinkering with things to see what works best for us. And trading ideas with each other. While we'd all rather not have Mr. P. in our lives, and would like to kick him out permanently, that isn't a ppossibility (yet -- maybe it will be someday). We just have to keep on keeping on, and trying to do things we can and treasuring the good things in our lives. Some days will be better than others. But I'll let you in on my little secret. I believe that when we are born, each of us has a certain nunber of bad days assigned to them. We don't know what that number is. But we do know that every time we have a crappy day, that means we have 1 fewer crappy days ahead of us. AND, because we don't know how nany we were assigned, it might be th
at THIS crappy day could be the LAST one we ever have! So maybe we just have to deal with this one and we're done! 😉