Summer Update (August 2024)

The story so far. Summer 2021. Fell over a couple of times, noticed a tremor in my right hand. December 2021. Self-diagnosed Parkinson's Disease. April 2022. Diagnosis confirmed. April 2023. First visit to REGEN February 2024. Started taking PD medication. August 2024 Medications working well. Since the last update I've spent a month travelling in northern Norway (by boat, train and bus) and have spent the last two months in the Shetland house mostly photographing puffins at the south end of the Shetland mainland. The motor symptoms of PD are generally under control. I do feel stiff early in the day until the morning meds have kicked in (I and my PD nurse have a plan to address this), my hand tremor does occasionally interfere with my photography (I can't always press the shutter button as quickly as I'd like to capture action shots) and computer mouse control is sometimes frustrating (don't even mention double-clicking). The non-motor symptoms are a bit harder t...