Robert P.
My hand would shake. When I looked at it, it would stop. My doctor said "Senior tremors. Don't worry about it."
Then I was diagnosed with Parkinson's, sleep apnea and prostate cancer, all at the same time. I said to my wife, "I understand people have worse things than I do, but God, give me a little space here."
My symptoms now are slurred speech. Not all the time. It happens when I have stress. It doesn't matter that it's bad stress or….Yeah, sometimes I have pauses like that….Forgetting ... I'll stop in the middle of a word and forget what that word is. I'll start to say the word and boom, it's gone.
I have hallucinations too. I have one now. See there is a woman standing over there. And I used to have Sunday afternoon get togethers with little people. There would be about 6 or 8 of them. Midgets I guess. They'd be jumping on the couch. "Get off the couch. If Mary Ann gets home, she's going to be really mad so get off the couch! " Only they weren’t there... Then I'd laugh at myself. I'd laugh, but I sold all my guns right after that happened the first time, just in case.
My doctor sent me to a geriatric psychiatrist. I don't like psychiatrists. But she was gorgeous so I made an exception. "We want to find out why you're depressed? “ So I said, "Doc, I've got cancer. I've got Parkinson's and sleep apnea. Why should I be depressed?"
I find that when you talk about Parkinson's to people, if you're not bleeding, they don't believe you hurt. Do you get what I mean? You've got to be showing blood. They also say you don't die from Parkinson's. I don't know what they're talking about.
Then I was diagnosed with Parkinson's, sleep apnea and prostate cancer, all at the same time. I said to my wife, "I understand people have worse things than I do, but God, give me a little space here."
My symptoms now are slurred speech. Not all the time. It happens when I have stress. It doesn't matter that it's bad stress or….Yeah, sometimes I have pauses like that….Forgetting ... I'll stop in the middle of a word and forget what that word is. I'll start to say the word and boom, it's gone.
I have hallucinations too. I have one now. See there is a woman standing over there. And I used to have Sunday afternoon get togethers with little people. There would be about 6 or 8 of them. Midgets I guess. They'd be jumping on the couch. "Get off the couch. If Mary Ann gets home, she's going to be really mad so get off the couch! " Only they weren’t there... Then I'd laugh at myself. I'd laugh, but I sold all my guns right after that happened the first time, just in case.
My doctor sent me to a geriatric psychiatrist. I don't like psychiatrists. But she was gorgeous so I made an exception. "We want to find out why you're depressed? “ So I said, "Doc, I've got cancer. I've got Parkinson's and sleep apnea. Why should I be depressed?"
I find that when you talk about Parkinson's to people, if you're not bleeding, they don't believe you hurt. Do you get what I mean? You've got to be showing blood. They also say you don't die from Parkinson's. I don't know what they're talking about.