This question was posed by a commenter in the recent Jane Brody Living Well with PD article in the New York Times.

It was comment #3 from Marie in Oregon
"How do you cope with the uncertainty of your future? Thanks."

How do you cope with an uncertain future?

We've talked a lot about coping with PD - but, specifically, how do you cope with the uncertainty it brings?

I think this has been central to the ways I've lived/wasted/enjoyed my life, and influenced all of my decisions - good and bad.

Most recently, I realized that I had often thought I would never see my daughter graduate from college 12 years after my diagnosis. But I did, and she did - last weekend.

I have also made some unfavorable financial decisions.

I know, I know - we could be hit by a bus tomorrow and die or be disabled - but we do know for certain what a death that includes PD would look like - we just don't know, at all, the time span and degree of disability.

How do you cope with the uncertainty? Me - I got a horse, and I intend to ride it into the sunset ...... (now that Elizabeth has graduated from college) ...... No time like the present.