More health stuff

For me it's a cathartic exercise writing this stuff!!
During the last year and a half of my working life (in a proper job!) I had noticed I had a tendency to keep tapping my right hand and at odd times , particularly when eating soup or cereal, there was a mild right hand tremor!  What now!!
Work was getting hectic finishing off various projects and preparing to hand over all the bits and pieces of paperwork before I retired.  At one point the MD said "As you're coming up for sixty five have you thought about continuing with work".  It was a definite "No thanks!" I had a plan and it didn't include wandering about a mountain in horizontal sleet (or in summer, horizontal rain!).  July 4th (Independence Day) retirement, drinks with the troops and away!
Move on a year and a half and relocated in Burghead Moray.  I had registered with the Moray Coast Medical Practice and as the tremor in my hand had become more noticeable I eventually made an appointment to see what my new GP thought was going on.  After a quick check up of blood pressure  and pulse rate there were a few questions about life style, stress etc. and I was pleased to hear him say "I'm not really sure, there are a number of causes of tremors so I'll refer you to a Neurologist in Aberdeen and we'll see what he has to say".  I like a doctor who  can say "I'm not sure", I don't expect them to know everything about everything, and you know that they're not trying to fudge the issue.
A while later and it's a bus ride to The Granite City, great, the bus stops right outside the hospital, time for a quick coffee followed by a short wait in the Neurology Department.  A consultation and some tests and forty five minutes later I'm back in the hospital cafe coming to terms with a diagnosis of Parkinson's!!  A degenerative neurological problem with (at present) no cure!  There was I, sat clutching a mug of coffee in my left hand, the right was shaking too much, and thinking shit! why me??  First cancer, now this!  What next? bloody leprosy!!  After a wee rant at life in general I'm back on the bus home and reading the Parkinson's information booklet I'd been given.  To be fair, I wasn't just given the diagnosis and turfed out, an appointment had been made to see a Geriatrician with a special interest in Parkinson's, and a Specialist Parkinson's Nurse at Dr Gray's Hospital in Elgin.  This situation was far preferable to a two hour bus trip to Aberdeen, and I could always contact the Aberdeen consultant if necessary.  Grampian Health Board were coming up with real joined up thinking!!
Now it was going to be a case of reading and on line searches to find out what joys Dr Parkinson's shaking palsy had in store for me!!