I am thinking i should back up some more in this stories time line
and explain whats is like to have Parkinson’s
tremor, how i think it started, when i think it started, trying to earn a
living, driving to work every day, driving, going out into public,
going to the bank not being able to fill out a deposit slip ,waiting
for my wife to come home from work to goto the bank with me to
fill out the deposit slip. What happens when you ask your
employer for one day a week off so you can make and attend
doctors appointments. There is so many thoughts over such a
long time i do not think its possible to list them all here. I will start
this story now where i think it starts.
I am not sure at what point i had my first symptom was. I am
going back to around 2003. I was at work i picked up a hammer
using my right hand . The fingers on my hand would not move i
could only move my thumb and the palm of hand. I was able to get
an appointment with my primary care. Where i was told could have
been a spider byte. I left there with a script for 800mg of ibuprofen
or Advil. The Advil did nothing for my hand but it did make the rest
of me feel great no aches or pains.
As the week went on every day i got more use of my hand till i
forgot there was ever a problem.
Time pass on to somewhere around and during 2004 to 2006. I’m
on week long vacation from work. I sat down at the computer and
played video games FPS games only getting out of my chair to
use the bathroom , eat and sleep i say eat i mean get food, i ate it
in the chair. I must have hit the mouse button a billion times. In
fact i was on the 3 mouse i worn out the other two, as well i worn
the letters “w,a,s,d” off the keyboard. If you look close you can see
the fingernail indentations. The hole week just pushing the mouse
button drinking soda and eating anything that could be prepared
quickly. Got all done back at work and my index finger(the finger
next to the thumb) was twitching the exactly the same as if i was
pushing the mouse button . It continues for a about week.
At some point it should be known that there was a open soda all
the time. Not just during game time. Where talking 24pk of soda a
day.
More text to come................
2/16/2018
Its been a month short of 4 years on the install of the DBS . I just
had a new battery installed. This time they keep me awake can’t
tell you how stressful it was to know I was going to be awake.
What every drugs they used took the stress away. Now the
numbness stuff has worn off. The discomfort I am having is
tolerable using just Tylenol and sitting in my desk chair.
2/22/2018
My wife had bought me a “Rubik’s Build It Solve It” kit for
Christmas. Yesterday i got around to assembling/building it. As i
was assembling all the peaces (some where very small). It
occurred to me this is not something i could have done
with out the use of the DBS. My wife walked in to say “seeing
you put that together makes it worth it. What she means by worth
it is all the trips to the city all the doctors visits. So far i agree.
I am making this page in hopes of giving hope to
someone like me who has Parkinson’s