I"m leaving the Phoenix heat for cooler weather at Yale for the SPECT scan trial this Monday. They will also send a companion with the trial participant - so this time my cousin from Chicago is going to come and will meet me at JFK. (I've always gone alone before)

Anyway my cousin has MS and I've arranged a wheelchair for her to be waiting for us at the hotel. But we're looking forward to a couple of days together. And I"m looking forward to cooler weather.

My hope is that this brain scan technique will eventually be approved by the FDA as a diagnostic tool for PD. Scientists will have scans for 400 of us who started in 2003 and every other year to 2009. (And eventually I"ll get copies of all the scans.) I'm proud that my participation is adding to scientific knowledge about PD.