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A Thorn in My Rose Garden. A Woman’s Journal Living With Parkinson’s. C. Claire Lucka
Dedication
My Diagnosis
Parkinson’s Medications
Depression and Psyche
Staying Healthy and Active
Friends and Support System
Physical Limitations and Pain
Spousal Relationships and Role Changes
Making Life Changes
This book is dedicated to my husband Tom for all of his love and support and for giving me a comfortable quiet place so I could write my story. Thank you.
To my best friend Pam for always standing by me all these years no matter what; for your friendship, love and encouragement.
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Cognitive impairment is what they call it. Under normal conditions, I appeared and functioned fine. However, add stress, fatigue and a demanding and busy work situation and you get what is described as slight slowness of thought and slight difficulty with memory and word retrieval. As the disease progresses, these difficulties worsen increasing problems with speed of thought and memory and deficits in attention. Hyperkinesia and impaired control of distal musculature can cause micro-graphic (writing reduced in size) and activities of daily living become very difficult.
I realized that my career as a Corporate Paralegal had ended. The decision was made, after discussions with my treating neurologist, that I be placed on disability. The primary goal was to reduce my stress level thereby possibly postponing the progression of the disease and improving the quality of my life for as long as possible.
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