I can't resist, I like to say:
Do not burn your bridges until you get to them...... it's all water under the river...and a stitch in the hand saves nine on the roof.**

We don't fit into the stage patterns, but for the doctors who treat us, who don't themselves know from inside how it feels to have PD, it is necessary to make charts and slots into which they can squeeze us to categorize us. It always strikes me when I see my nice neurologist, that he may know all about PD and other movement disorders, but he will never know PD as I do. He can categorize me, but I determine what to think about my 'stage' and my quality of life....so far at least.

** Not making fun of using 'sayings', just agreeing whole heartedly, and light heartedly that the now must be enjoyed now.