Gea, what about Parkinson's advocacy? Maybe that would be a good use of time! Promote education in your community, raise funds for reseaerch , start or improve a support group, Plan an event to get fellow parkie's together! April is Parkinson's Disease awareness month , maybe set up an interview w/ your local TV station to make people aware, Get a story put in your local newspaper to make people aware of Parkinson's Disease!Any of these strike your interest? Maybe at the end of the day , you could say " Hey I did everything I could to promote PD , helped with finding a cure and talked with another PWP that needed support!" Look through the discussions for my list of resources, join us in chat in Parkiejams and on yahoo instant messsenger! You'll never be alone! You can start with me , add me to your yahoo IM as "tennmike1957" ! Hope your thanksgiving was nice ! You have a hubby and 3 children that probably still need you and that is something incrediable to be thankful for! Hugs !

Your NEW friend in PD !
Michael

I don't know if I have the perfect answer but I can tell you that you are not alone. I went from working full-time for 15years and am raising 2 kids by myself. I am still busy with talking my daughter to practices,games.
I fear the day she will be gone, my son will be gone in 2 years. I want to read but my vision is always blurry and reading makes my tired so I go to sleep. I myself need to get out more. I might be a Hospice volunteer. Maybe you can call around and find some volunteer work. Some of them just need someone to answer phones etc. Well best of luck. Kat

Been there done that. Single father of my son. With p.d. 15yrs. Join silver sneakers and kick old man parkinson's down the road!

There r lots of volunteer programs that you can do from home such as calling an elderly person once a day to see how thay r doing. Lots of them do not have family or anyone any moe and would love to have aphone call or a visit from anyone. Ther r lots of people in nursing homes that would like a visit. When we were kids we used to take all the old CHristmas and birthday cards we could find and cut the front covers off and then glue them into scrapbooks and donate them to the nursing homes because they love the beautiful glitter and colors and pretty pictures they could look at. It brightened up a lot of there days. We were told after by the nursing homes, that the people really loved them. We used to crochet little lap robes and shoulder shawls and wrap them for christmas gifts to them and little slippers, but you have to be careful of the bottoms to make sure you put something in them so they dont slide on the floor. All year long you have different holidays and pretty postcards and thigs you can glue into the scrapbooks, even pictures from magazines are good. It makes you feel good and the people that see them feel better too. Hope this helps. Sue

Justa thought open up yor tv
to a guide exercise route program and make that part of your day and you will find that will help

that's a big question, especially when you can't do much, such as my dad, then it leads to a life of feeling so alone, deep down inside. i'm still trying to figure somehthing out for him, and for me myeslf, other than cooking and cleaning and worrying about my parents. this is not living! i want to live, but i'm at my parents so much of the time, my husband works and my son works. i just have the same, no-fun-at-all days, every single day. i guess this is not much help, yet i certainly can relate to your situation