Thank you for having the courage to share. After reading your story you are a survivor with strength and great courage. Your love for your daughter shows a strong force not to be reckoned with. I can share I became strong after getting knocked down one to many times. Whether it was a hand over my mouth or being told "I don't believe anyone gave you permission to speak", remember those days? That is when i learned my voice clearly was heard. I can choose to keep my mouth shut especially when I don't have anything nice to say, lol. More now because I choose not to waste my energy where it isn't useful. I'm grateful your son is ok and you still are able to advocate for your daughter Lisa. Now comes you! What comes to my mind first, is is what exercises can you do even if in bed or a chair? Your doctor only knows how to help you heal a broken pelvis but do you have a movement disorder specialist? I say that because they specialize in movement disorders but help you keep moving. What muscles can you work while healing? Have you ever tried face yoga? Everyone laughs at me when I say that, but google it. The last laugh isn't on me. I agree the unknown is terrifying. I haven't met one person yet that hasn't shared their fear with PD. After reading your story a few tiimes I have say you are stronger than you think! Maybe put a bell on your dog so you know where they are at all times. I can't count how many times that could have happened to me. My precious little Molly was always under my feet. I wish I still had her. You thanked God your son is fine so I know you know you are never alone. I just recently spoke to a dear friend and told him I wish to blend everywhere I go. His response was Jane you will never blend. Maybe what we wish for isn't what we can choose but is our purpose to help others? I'm sorry your life partner relationship didn't go as you planned, I'm so sorry for your loss of a child and for the challenges you face advocating for your daughter and now yourself. What I can share with you thru my life experience is I learned to live in the present by being present but plan for the future. Plan fun things, live life with purpose and always choose happiness even in times when you are crying inside or outside. Get it out, yell it out, swear it out and let it go. We all have good days and not so good days. They can be really bad days, hard to breathe thru days, but has anything come close to the day when a doctor told you had a lump and pulled out your unborn lifeless child while your other child was fighting to live? I can only imagine what that possibly could have felt like. It's tragic! I can tell you everyday I wake up, I listen to my body. I'm sure you do it without even realizing it. It's like a scan to see what is working today and what I may need to see what I can do to get my body to cooperate. When I feel deep pain & rigidity, I tell myself, just get up. Try to see what you can do and choose to make it the best day you can because we don't know what is next. It's not about the disease but about life. No one can tell you what is next! I hope you never stop trying something new out of your comfort zone, and choose to smile because even when you have so much on your plate, smiling seems like it takes so much weight off of your shoulders. I wish you peace, wellness and hope. You are not along. There is a whole bunch of use out there just like you! Different faces, bodies, ages, stories, symptoms, etc. but we are all diagnosed with this disease called Parkinson's. I here to fight with you, for you, for us. I'm not sure how the email works yet on my website but I will find out. In the meantime if I don't respond know it's because I am resting my body or mind. All I ask is you continue to share my story, your story to help support others and to know You Are Not Alone! I wish I could add music to get you dancing even if only in your head right now. I practice imagery. I'm an incredible dancer in my mind.

Michael, you have been the angel that keeps showing up. Honestly, we have weathered many storms and will continue. It's just in our make up! I love you and always pray for you! God gave you to me just when I needed you most!

Thank you always for your continued support. You are the rock that's always there holding me up! I love you girl. Remember the car ride out on calls as my car wasn't moving so quickly up the hill. I said I think I can, I think I can, I think I can and we made it up the hill laughing all the way!

Watch for more to come since you couldn't come that night. It was recorded for all that could not make it. Thank you for your kind words of inspiration. You are right. Everyone has a story and there is always someone else's story that reminds you, your story isn't as bad or difficult as others and gives you gratitude.

Sheree, God put you in my life. Your beautiful prayer before I went out to the public was amazing! We walked shared many paths on seperate journeys but by far this exceeded what the human mind could not have imagined! Thank you for reading my story on Facebook, for reaching out to me and for not backing down when I challenged you with "Why me". My story is helping others. It has brought me to tears and shaken me not from my Parkinson's LOL!

Thank. you Maria. You came into my life not by chance. We may not have been born from the same threads but we share those threads woven from history. Thank you for your love, support and your beautiful smile!

Thank you! Having courage to share isn’t easy but sharing so others don’t feel alone or isolated based on judgement is critical to educating others as my own doctor reminds me, she’s my doctor specialist and she doesn’t know what it is like so we partner, we share, it’s a trusted relationship that is built. But I knew right away she was perfect for me. No judgement journey but courage to discuss heavy stuff is having an open reminding yourself the world will always see what they choose to see unless you take risks. Some times people are meant to be temporary. We are snowflakes as we all share a disease called Parkinson’s if scientists are still trying to find what the cause is, how to stop it and how to cure it then even the smartest people in the world can’t judge us. The greatest support we have behind is research and trials. Our resources are getting cut so please share. It’s my hope that my voice encourages others to find their voice and not allow the opinion of anyone be the only voice heard!

Thank you! Paul & I hope to attend your 2nd Act! Congratulations wishing you much success