I have Parkinson's...What makes you tic?

    I'm starting this blog to document my journey through having Young Onset Parkinson's Disease.  For those people that may be reading this, I figured I'd start by telling a little bit about me, who I am, and how I came to where I'm at now.  

    My name is Aaron and I'm really just your average type of person.  I'm 43 years old, spent 90% of my life living in the Philadelphia area, and yes, I have Parkinson's Disease.  For most of my adult life, I've noticed that I had a slight, very slight, shake to my hands or tap of the foot.  It wasn't anything that kept me from accomplishing anything that I needed to do, but was just a simple resting tremor, so I never thought anything of it.  At some moments it would get a little bit worse, but I always chalked it up to anxiety or just being a little bit high-strung.  Nothing to ever think of or become concerned about.  About 7 or 8 months ago it got significantly worse.  As this was while my wife and I were knee-deep in planning our wedding, we chalked it up to the anxiety of that...but being that I had an upcoming doctor's appointment anyway, figured it couldn't hurt to ask.

    Fast forward to April and my doctor's appointment.  I mention to my doctor that I've been having these tremors and my ( what I believed at the time to be ) family history of Parkinson's, and she decides to have me make an appointment with a neurologist.  She also ran a battery of blood tests such as checking my Magnesium levels, since a deficit can cause tremors.  All of my blood-work comes back right down the middle, so we knew it wasn't that.  

    Now it comes time for my appointment with the neurologist, he runs through a few tests with me and seemed pretty sure of the diagnosis but sent me for an MRI anyway ( that experience I'll speak about in another post ).  MRI came back normal so here we are today...I have Parkinson's...What makes you tic?

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  1. DaveAugust 2, 2021 at 5:54 AM

    Great post, but I think you really missed out on a branding opportunity by not hosting it on TikTok and calling it TicTalk. (Terrible, I know, couldn't resist, but Grandpop would be proud.)

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