It did not spoil his mood. He regularly took his insulin vaccines, monitored his diet, continued to exercise, and continued. The vibrations, however, were only the beginning. His condition only got worse from there. Decades later, many misdiagnosis and experimental drugs were later diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. According to the Parkinson’s Foundation, the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease can be very different, often making it difficult to diagnose. Typically, no two people will have exactly the same symptoms. I think the hardest part of being present when someone you love has a degenerative disease is watching their kind, funny, smart, energetic, thinking self slowly disintegrate until it is nothing more than the person doing it. only one shell of the one he used. to be. This is what my grandfather did with Parkinson’s disease and then dementia. He fought it at every step. He re-learned daily chores, stubbornly insisted on taking insulin injections on his own, and wrote handwritten addresses in envelopes until he could no longer hold a pen. That’s why maybe his weakness hit us so hard.