A Always with you, Anger, Art therapy, APDA, Art classes, Anonymous grant, Ask for help, Answers, Acceptance!
B Be the Best you can Be, Balance, BIG, Be Brave, Be happy, Be your own advocate!
C Caregiver, Contrast, Constipation, Cure, Carries’, Christine, Can’t be happening!
D Dopamine, Diagnosis, Delay the Disease, DBS, Disability, Depression, Day to Day, Denial, Donna, Diana, Dave, Dyskinesia, Dystonia, Driving, Deal with it!
E Evident in Every step, Exercise, Encouragement, Exhausting!
F Family, Friends, Fun, Fear of Falling, Fatigue, Future, Fine motor skills, problems, Foot problems, Food, Friendship, Fox Trials, F___ this!
G Gait, Gloom, Get out, Get Going, Get help, Grief, Good Grief!
H Humor, Handwriting, Hope, Honesty, Home sweet Home, Help!
I I am ready to work out, Individual, Incontinence, Isolation, I wish I didn’t have It!
J Journey, Jerky muscles, Joint pain, Judy, Just deal with it! Just saying!
K Kinky muscles, Kindred spirits, Karl, Kiss of death, Kind, Kind’a sucks!
L Loved ones, Levodopa-Carbidopa, Laughter, LSVT LOUD and BIG, Lee, Laurie, Let’s go!
M Managing, Medicines, Muscle cramps, Music, Massage, Meditation, Move!, Movement Disorder Specialist, Make new friends, Michael J. Fox, Muhammad Ali
N Neurologist, Neuro-psychologist, Neuro-ophthalmologist, Neuro-transmitters, NPF, Newsletters, New friends, Not so good, Not fair, Not me!
O Opportunities, On/Off, Oprah cannot help, Oh sh__!
P Promise of tomorrow, Positive attitude, Personal trainer, Patience, Poetry, Pursuit, Perception, Prescriptions, Peace, Pissed off!
Q Questioning, Quest for answers and cure, Quiet your mind, Quit – cannot quit!
R Reeling from diagnosis, Realization, Rigidity, Rut, Rush-Copley Healthplex, Retirement, Recreation, Research, Ready to take charge!
S Support group, Socialize, Swim, Spirit, Share Story, Slowness, Substantia-nigra, Stand tall, Susan, Stephanie, Symposiums, Swallowing, Scared, Sucks!
T Tremors, Trying, Trials, Tai Chi, Treadmill, Tired, Tomorrow, Thankfulness, Today is the best day of my life!
U Understanding it all, Until tomorrow, Ugly, Utter devastation!
V Vision issues, Volunteer, Vulnerable, Voice, Vacation!
W Why me? What do I do? What’s next? Water exercise, Wish for bowel movement, WEB MD, Wishing, Walking, Writing, Wrapping head around it!
X Exercise, Example, Exactly, Expensive, Exasperating!
Y Yearning for how you were before PD, Yoga, Yes, you have PD, Yikes!
Z Zealous approach to learning all you can, Zest for living and taking care of yourself, Zen, Zoo –go visit!
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