cs, your description of your pre pd days certainly sent me thinking. i have always enjjoyed working with my hands, from commercial fishing and fish guiding to farming and pottery. this past monday at work i moved a bunch of 6x6x20' posts, some 80# concrete bags, and then worked on my phd-(thats post hole digger). well, i couldnt move very well and after getting home and strggling through dinner and bedtime with my daughter i had to crawl on my hands and knees to get to my bed. tuesday was a real strggle for me.

i havent started any pharmaceticals yet. so i ve never experienced ons and offs. but i know now what feeling symptomatic is like. i have an intentional tremor and it messes with my chewing and swallowing and my voice and facial expression. bradekinesia and rigidity.

i read in here somewhere that over sixty percent of pwd dont starttaking drugs the first year. how long did you go? i am starting to get an idea of what being disabled means. it wierd and i dont know what to say.