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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: "all the way over on the West Coast"
Posts: 1,032
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: "all the way over on the West Coast"
Posts: 1,032
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hard thing to face
Sasha -
For a number of complex reasons (some PD related; others not), I was bounced from an 18-year long job much earlier than I had planned when diagnosed with PD.
I was 41 when dx'd in 1999; worked my last day on July 31, 2002. I was devasted - I understand every word that you wrote.
5 years later, I'm glad to be finally stablized on SSDI and Medicare, and I feel stress free and hopeful for the first time (she said fatefully!....) since then.
It has been hard, but I think good for me, especially physically. The mental and emotional stuff has been much more difficult.
I think it's like pulling off a band aid - the strength it takes to get up the courage to pull it off and the initial sting are bad; it's all better after that.
You are in good company. There are so many of us who have had similar experiences. Losing my job has been the worst thing about PD. But I'm in a good place now.
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Carey
“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.” — Susan B. Anthony
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