Fall checkin

I am very negligent keeping up this journal. Nearly a year, and here is what has transpired in this year.

The parkinsons non motor problems are becoming expecially troublesome. Urinary incontinece, bowel predictibility is poor. I am drooling more and more stooped and ED has taken my sex life.

On the positive side, I am still at 5 sinmet and 2 pramapexol a day and control most of my motor functions pretty well. I am getting better at the mandolin, we walk alot and I am pretty good cognitively and have no Dyskenisia.

We spent last week at the World Parkensons Congress in Portland OR. Fantastic program and I am bursting with ideas. I have joined a nutritional study group for a five year term. I will be tuning up my diet slightly based on things learned at the congress. I am going off milk, and will further reduce my red meats and fried foods. I will continue having a red wine cooler about daily using Tonic water for the Quinine. I have a terrible time with night time leg cramps.

I have a new word for my vocabulary; "alpha synuclein," and I will be watching for studies on individual Stem Cells research.

This October finishes up 5 years and 7 months since diagnosis.