hi from Cape Cod. So,on this subject: in 1998, a year before my PD diagnosis confirmed what I'd suspected for a while, my internist ordered an EMG to see why my right hand was no longer working. I was thrilled to get a report that I had a pinched nerve, thinking, "Great, it's not PD!" Oddly, I've never had any of the expected symptoms that correlate with pinched nerve, where I should have numbness, etc. But it makes me wonder as I read , whether there is a correlation with PD and pinched nerves due to our styles of walking changing as we begin to drag one foot, and limp, and one side takes over more functioning? Just a thought...Be well, all.
I'm trying to enjoy my vacation, which is in my favorite place, but I have had such a staggeringly steep and progressive decline in my functioning, and such a rise in my "freezing" frequency, that I am actually fairly scared at what lies ahead. And yet, I can still, at odd intervals, walk around completely normally!!! And then, just like that, my med's stop working for 2 or three doses in a row, and with no typically predictable triggers whatsoever, and I'm helpless as an upside-down centipede, so go figure.
At these moments, I seem to be an incredible Scrabble player lately. And by way, what's funnier than 3 people with PD playing Scrabble and being obsessively unable to decide which tiles to use? A great paradigm for a clinical trial, to observe exective functioning in its high's and low's with us!

Sigh. What a mind-game this disease plays with us.
Leonore