my family broke apart too, my husband and i are so different that we wonder why we got married. but the PD hit right when my daughters were teenagers. the youngest got jipped and my husband says he became a single parent when i got on the computer.

in many ways he is right, altho he was unsupportive and to this day isn't really interested in all that i do with Parkinson's. i took my daughter to BIO, so she could see first hand what we do at confernces. she learned so much - understands that i was going thru something at the same time that she was growing up, and the family has reunited after 6 years of separation between my husband and myself.

it's not perfect, we are very different, but we're trying. i tried to get my husband to read the article above but he hasn't yet. i've been saying i wake up with pd and go to bed with schizophrenia for some time. i haven't actually broken from reality(yet) but lots of panic and anxiety that comes from sinemet overdose - it's all meds.

PD causes the pain and physical suffering, the meds cause our behaviors, I'm a mess, but keep my brain busy. Gotta keep going or it's over..

the family having knowledge is imperative.

paula