New Year's resolutions to help you live well with Parkinson's disease

By Sheryl Jedlinski

For most people, New Year's Eve is the time to look ahead to the promises of the coming year, and reflect on the changes we want to make in our lives. Those of us living with Parkinson’s disease too often find ourselves on the sidelines, afraid to dream in the face of our uncertain future. This is unfair to ourselves and to those who care about us.

Each of us must find our own way to put anger and sadness behind us and get on with living.  Although life will never be the way we had planned in our pre-Parkinson’s days, “different” does not have to be bad. More than 13 years into my own journey with Parkinson’s, I assure you that the daily choices we make will impact the quality of life we have tomorrow.  I’ve chosen my 10 resolutions for 2012 with this in mind and am sharing them here to inspire and motivate you to make your own resolutions:

If you don't like where you are currently at mentally or physically, this is the perfect time to change your course and your destiny. The choice is yours.

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