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JRWARIZONA
Sex: M
Data Quality: 3 stars
Parkinson's: 9 yrs
Hoehn-Yahr 3 Type: Parkinson's disease On
Mouth/throat: mild
Arms: mild
Chest: mild
Legs: mild
JRWARIZONA
Male, 51 years
MAYER, AZ
Primary Condition
Parkinson's
Type
Parkinson's disease
First symptom
Diagnosis
Interests
Faith, Research and 1 more ▼

About JRWARIZONA

I grew up on a farm/ranch in Oklahoma, served in the U.S. Army in the early 1980'S and then moved to Arizona in 1985 to go to college and then decided to go to a tech school for land surveying and I have worked in the field of land surveying in the private sector from 1986-1990 and with a county goverment in the northern part of Arizona from 1990 to present, but I have to work in the office drafting map most of time since 2005, because of the PD related problems I have and it's effect on my abilty to work in the field (i.e. balance issues, slowness of movement and etc). I have a 22 year old son (pictured with me) and he was in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper, but now he is infantryman in the Arizona National Guard (it very nice to have him back home).

Interests

Faith, Research, and Working with my Condition

Profile Activity
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Member since: Mar 10, 2008 Last Login May 16, 2013

More About JRWARIZONA

At this time of filling in the "about me" part of the my biography i am almost 8 year since my diagnosis date and I feel that I am a person with PD, but PD does not have me and it just a slower lifestyle (of course frustrating at time), I still do about everything I did before but at a lot slower pace and in some way it has allowed me to stop and smell the roses along the way in this journey of life. Also I feel I have learned some lessons along the way that I would of never have learned otherwise, so I guess I am one of those people that learn the hard way, since it took PD for the Lord to get my attention and become a little more focused on what is important in life.