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Been thinking a lot about what's next for me. What is it that I need to do to move my recovery along? Energetically, I'm beginning to feel stronger. From the perspective of how much time I've been holed up, it's time for me to figure out how to get out and about more--for body work, yoga, exercise/workouts, and socialization. Been too long in the cave! Time to move onward.

I'm still showing symptoms and dealing with movement issues, cognitive issues, and much more. But, I'm feeling that I need to just learn how to have the symptoms and still work on fully recovering. I was told that the tremor is the last to go yet it's always present, or so it seems. However, another year of this isolation will not be a good thing--quite the opposite.

Got one of the PD books I ordered from Amazon. Has a lot of information about conventional and alternative processes--even mentions the people I'm working with in SC. Also picked up the Murakami collection of short stories. He is a master!

Looked back at the video clip of the guy in Australia who recovered from PD. He never gave up and never settled for partial coping--he went for full recovery. The video shows him walking, writing, using his hands/fingers, talking and so forth. All without a trace of the illness. So it can be done! The questions are in what way and in what time frame. He claims to have been in Stage IV (out of five levels) of the illness. I'm still in Stage I, although I gained ground in some ways and lost in others--but I've not gotten markedly worse in the last year.

So, as I say, assessment time! Assessment, evaluation, and laying out a plan. Time to start on my New Year's resolutions--on what I plan to accomplish in 2007. Dream time is over! Waking reality has come knocking on the doors. Let it in, let it in!