New Start

I'm very glad I moved to an assisted living community.  It is bright and cheerful, the staff cares about every resident and takes the time each of them needs to accomplish anything in hich we need help.  Living alone and isolated in my old place was depressing and rather precarious/dangerous.  My pet is allowed to live here with me in my private room.  The staff spoils her with attention, too.  Making new friends here has been rather easy!  Being alone so much before, I am eager to be around people again.  What a difference!
The only thing that still needs big improvements are how my meds affect me every time.  Does anyone else here in the Parkinson's community have to stop their lives for an hour, struggling with medications that cause severe, painful cramping & spasming of the body muscles all over before they start to work?  The effects are strong enough that they require "clean-up" afterwards before I can get going again with what I had been doing.  Since this occurs inside of a rigid 4 hr. schedule, 6 times in 24 hrs., I do miss out on a lot of things and become quite worn out.  So that means inside of 4 hrs. I have (at best) only 2hrs. of ability.  It never makes me feel truly 'good' during the ON time, and I get lots of headaches and neck aches.  My doc is not understanding how rough this is on me, so the nurses and techs here are documenting it for me.  I sure hope he catches on soon what it is I am facing every day.  Whew!!
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