Administrator Note:
I apologize for the delay in posting this on Parkinson’s Journey. Somehow it got lost in the shuffle. I’m posting it here today, in the hopes that the someone who reads it, really needs it today and that’s why it was found today! Enjoy this fleeting day and have a great week! -sherri
PD Has Made A Difference
My diagnosis of YOPD, early stages on June 14, 2002 gave me more than the answers to a multitude of health-related questions I had been asking myself. My diagnosis opened within my very being a more sensitive awareness of just how fragile life really is.
That didn’t come as a total surprise to me (how fragile life is), because 12 years earlier, my 20-year-old nephew died instantly in a freak accident. All too often, many of us can tend to look at life through rose-colored glasses and believe that all of life’s challenges happen to someone else.
Back to my original thought, as the doctor gave his diagnosis, it was then I realized that the SOMEDAY I had been working toward; the future that I believed I still had plenty of time to plan . . . . was here, that day, that very moment. I replayed the diagnosis over in my mind . . . . . You . . . . have . . . . . the . . . . classic . . . . . symptoms . . . . .of . . . . . Young Onset Parkinsons Disease, early stages.
As I left my visit with the neurologist, I stepped outside, looked at my husband of then 31 years and said, “I won’t make you stay.” Startled, he replied, “What did you say??!” I repeated myself, and his reply was, “Oh . . . . no . . . . we’re in this together”. He has been true to his word, and has tried to understand, tried to be supportive to the best of his ability.
The two of us have had some pretty serious conversations during these past six plus years. Discussions about our faith, spiritual growth, trust in God’s faithfulness and mercy, our relationship, our future, we have grown closer with each passing day.
Well, SOMEONE has to be someone else’s “someone else” and if this is the road that God has chosen for me, for my family to travel, then I have chosen to work to bring honor to Him and to glorify Him.
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