SIDE EFFECTS

DID YOU EVER WONDER WHAT CAUSES THE STOCK MARKET'S VOLATILE MOVEMENTS?
THE WALL STREET JITTERS.<
ANYTHING CAN SET THEM OFF. THE WATER IS NOT HOT ENOUGH/ THE WATER IS TOO HOT/ THE WATER IS LUKE WARM. ANYTHING. THE SKY IS BLUE/ IT'S A CLOUDY DAY. ANYTHING.
NO SENSE TO HALF OF IT.
SIDE EFFECTS.<
DID YOU EVER READ THE LIST OF SIDE EFFECTS FOR THE MEDICATIONS YOU MIGHT TAKE?
ANYTHING(AND EVERYTHING). WHATEVER GIVES WALL STREET THE JITTERS AND THENSOME. IT IS ENOUGH TO PLANT THE FEAR OF GOD IN YOU.
SHOULD WE TRY IT/ SHOULD WE NOT?
TRY IT.
THEN YOU WAIT AND SEE. WHAT WILL HAPPEN, DID I JUST SEE THAT OR WAS IT A SIDE EFFECT. DID I JUST FEEL THAT OR WAS IT A SIDE EFFECT. I BETTER GO NOW (OR IS IT A SIDE EFFECT)?

BACK TO MY JOURNEY-"YOU HAVE PARKINSON"S"

ENOUGH OF THE WORLD AROUND US. I NOW KNOW I HAVE PARKINSON'S. MY MIRACLE MAN TOLD ME IT WON'T BE THE THING THAT I WILL DIE OF. COMFORTING. NOW I KNOW I WILL NOT DIE OF PARKINSON'S. WHAT I DON'T KNOW AT THAT POINT IN TIME IS HOW PROGRESSIVE I WILL BE.
I HAD BEEN KNOWN TO BE RATHER PROGRESSIVE IN SOME OF MY PREVIOUS BUSINESS ACTIVITY. SOME PEOPLE WOULD SAY AGGRESSIVE, I SAY PROGRESSIVE.
HOW AGGRESSIVE WILL PARKINSON'S BE WITH ME??? AHH, THAT IS THE QUESTION.

WE LEFT CORNELL-WEIL HOSPITAL IN NEW YORK AND DROVE BACK HOME. A LONG DRIVE ARMED WITH THIS NEWLY DEFINED KNOWLEDGE AND CHALLENGE, ALONG WITH A STARTER PACK OF MEDICATION.
I CAN STILL REMEMBER ARRIVING HOME, MY WIFE, MY DEAREST FRIEND FIXING OUR DINNER AND ME---SITTING THERE A BIT STUNNED FROM MY NEW KNOWLEDGE (OR LACK OF IT) LOOKING AT MY STARTER PACK OF SINEMET. IF I TAKE THE FIRST ONE HOW WILL I REACT TO THIS INVASION OF FOREIGN SUBSTANCES INTO MY BODY.
I WILL ALSO BE GIVING IN TO MY DIAGNOSIS. I WILL BE SURRENDERING, WITHOUT A FIGHT.

I TOOK MY FIRST DOSE AFTER MUCH CONSIDERATION AND FEAR.

I AM NOT SURRENDERING---THE FIGHT HAD JUST BEGUN.
THE DINNER WAS DELICOUS, AS USUAL AND MY LINDA WAS MY ROCK.

A SHAKY WORLD: CONTINUED,

IT IS FRIDAY THE 10TH OF OCTOBER, 2008.
THAT IS THE ONLY SURE THING I KNOW SO FAR.
I was still trying to start my next chapter of my journey, BUT, what is going on in this world??
IT'S ALL SHOOK UP.
AND I THOUGHT I HAD THE SHAKES.

I'M GOING TO SEE WHAT THE DAY BRINGS---HOPEFULLY SOME SENSE TO IT ALL.
STRAIN AND STRESS, NOT RECOMMENDED.

A SHAKY WORLD: NOT JUST ME

I TALK ABOUT 'THE SHAKES' FROM TIME TO TIME, BUT WOW----WE ALL WATCHED THE WORLD SHAKE, THIS MONDAY THE SIXTH OF OCTOBER.
WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS A LITTLE REQUIP, AMANTADINE, YOU KNOW AN AGONIST TO HELP THE MEDICINE DOO ITS' WORK.
A LITLE BIT GOES A LONG WAY.

PAUL NEWMAN

I WAS THINKING OF MY NEXT CHAPTER WHEN I CAME ACROSS THE FOLLOWING:

PAUL NEWMAN
chaseinnewyork.blogspot.com

This cheered me up.

FEAR AND DISBELIEF

THE NEXT STEP was to get some good advice. Having a future Nobel Laureate in the family is good.
We visited, discussed and were recommeded to one of the top Neurologists on the globe. My condition was defined as, "You have the shakes--that's what we call it in the business" Well now I have the "shakes".
I took my trembling self to see this newly found miracle man.
I found out I HAVE THE SHAKES.
No questions about it.