joe-ferguson
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In my family, there are five of us first cousins and we all lived on my grandads SE Virginia farm, bought in 1950s. We were born in the 60s and 70s. The city dump was across the road from our farm. In the 80s, the city notified us our homes had to be disconnected from our deep wells. We had to go on city water. I wonder why? Today, only my brother is disease free to our knowledge. Between us other four, we have PD, Crohns, MS, MCI, and something else I can’t remember. Is this enough to investigate? We think the water underground was contaminated like Camp Lejeune!
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….. IN my house. (Whoops)
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All the time my teenage kids spend squabbling and tussling with each other and their mother would be helpful if that were not the case I’m my house.
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I was a two-letter athlete every year in school. Then was a full time army ROTC cadet in college academy (Va Tech), then nine years in the army including airborne school. I was always in good running shape. About age 35 I started having serious episodic progressive trouble with my back every couple years. I live on an old fashioned farm and did all that hands on, strenuous, he man work without benefit of much modern machinery, and loved the challenge, “I can do/lift it!” I thus let go of deliberate, non-chore type exercise for years until I had my corrective back surgery in Jan 2018, then during recovery in May I was dx with PD. I had planned to get in shape anyway after my back repair, but then PD dx really got me going, to survive at all! I’ve faithfully been doing my power walking for an hour three times per week since then. Retired early at 57 last month and am getting back into weight training too. I’m thankful I know how to train and learned the self discipline early in life though it was always a team thing back then. Now, out in rural America I’m on my own to exercise, but feel I have the background to make myself persevere and not quit. So far my physical symptoms are not bad but the ED and MCI and other subtle things are progressing that o can perceive inside. I hope to delay the wolf at the door. My kids are still in public school.
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I’m optimistic!
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I see a category then I don’t see any options to click on to read. What am I missing?
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I was getting some ED in the year before dx, but it was not total. My spouse and I were actually managing pretty well in spite of it. The first year and a half after dx remained the same. Then recently it went out pretty badly and now I can clearly state it has negatively affected our quality of life! I had been calling my increased drive the silver lining of my PD cloud, and thinking positively that way, but going forward I’m not sure how I’m going to look at this. I have been faithfully doing the hard exercise since my dx 18 months ago, so I am doing my part in good faith!