Re: introduction and question

[Amanda Phillips <ajphill@xxxxxxx>]

When telling people, it's worth adding that it's not catching and doesn't cause insanity.

Some still don't know this and will be frightened.

There may also be a legal / terms of service requirement to inform an employer.



When I told my workmates I found most had worked it out anyway, only one neede reassurance.

Amanda


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From: platypus <echidna5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 8.32pm
Subject: Re: introduction and question



I am a doctor. I gave up surgery when I saw how easily a colleage could do?
it. I gave up mmy practice when people stopped coming because they thought I?
had Alzheimers disease, but I still look up things for people on internet. I?
meditate and write poetry?
You will always be a vet in your heart?
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http://meditation.org.au/?
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http://mungomandreaming.blogspot.com/?
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From: "Kristin Woestehoff" <kgwoestehoff@xxxxxxxxx>?
To: <PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>?
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 2:22 AM?
Subject: introduction and question?
?
> Hi,?
> my name is Kristin and I am new to the list and to the PD community. I?
> am 49, married with two kids and own my on veterinary practice in?
> Colorado. I heard about PIEN when I read the book, When Parkinsons?
> Strikes Early. That was a great book to start my education and get me?
> connected to a very supportive PD community. I had some trouble signing?
> up for PIEN at first, so I joined the yahoo PD list (plwp2) and found out?
> what a great group of people this disease brings together! It is nice not?
> to have to go through this alone...?
>?
> Right now I am newly diagnosed and very mild, so I am able to function?
> OK, I just have the usual worries about the future. I have left sided?
> tremors and a bit of loss of strength and coordination on that side, but?
> not so much that it affects what I do. I will ask a question that I asked?
> the PLWP2 list, as I want to hear what others think. I am struggling with?
> how much to tell people. It is in my nature to 'let it all hang out' so I?
> will probably be quite open about it, but I do wonder how people will?
> react. Friends and family I am not too concerned about. I am mostly?
> concerned about what my staff at work and my clients (the pet owners) will?
> think. Will they think I am not capable? I think right now I can, for?
> instance, do surgery OK. The tremor is in my nondominant hand, and I do?
> not really notice it much during surgery. I am sure that will change?
> overtime and I will have to give up that aspect of my practice.?
>?
> I am not currently being treated for PD. I do take propranolol which?
> seems to diminish the trremors, probably by dimishing any anxiety I might?
> have that aggravates the tremors.?
>?
> Looking forward to learning from you all!?
> Kristin?
>?
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