Day by Day with Parkinson's and Peripheral Neuropathy: First Dream / Difficulty Walking

Day by Day with Parkinson's and Peripheral Neuropathy

I was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease and Peripheral Neuropathy in 2006, but my symptoms seemed to take a turn in a different direction in late 2007. The current diagnosis is Essential Myoclonus. You will find record here of a my journey - coping with the testing, the medicines, nutrition, digestion problems, exercise, the emotions, and no telling what else!

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

First Dream / Difficulty Walking

I had my first dream last night in which I was walking the way I'm walking now. The "me" in the dream was very old, but it was definitely me, and the walk was definitely my walk. I would have thought my dreams would have continued to be of my normal walk. I've wondered before if quadraplegics' dreams had them walking or not. Now I guess I know the answer to that one.

I woke up super early this morning. I'm hoping I can blog for a little while and then go back to sleep, but that remains to be seen. Right now, I'm not even yawning.

Labels: difficulty walking, dreams

2 Comments:

At 8/31/2006 8:43 AM , Ruth said...

This is good to hear from your posts that using the walker went better than you thought. I'm glad. Dreams - well most paralyzed people tend to have what we call "walking dreams" where we arent in our wheelchairs. I don't know why (this is only based on talking to my friends). However I have had dreams both ways - walking /wheelchair. Sometimes it seems to depends on who is in the dream/what is happening in the dream. Thank you so much for stopping by my blog and offering support to some of the readers --your posts here and over there really help people going through an adjustment to using equipment. God bless.
At 8/31/2006 3:18 PM , Dirty Butter said...

I really was happy to see how easy it was to get over my embarrassment with the walker. It wasn't nearly as awkward as I thought it would be. I hope your anonymous friend is taking communion at home, if he's not getting out to church. It would be a shame to deprive himself of the sacrament unnecessarily.