Perhaps the hardest thing to get used to when you have Parkinson's Disease is the knowledge that it is progressive. To put it bluntly, its going to get worse rather than better. I mentioned in my first entry that, by the time symptoms become obvious enough to diagnose, PD has already significantly depleted dopamine production in the brain. Living with Parkinsons poses lots of riddles though. Why does it affect movement on my right side so much more than my left? Why is it worse on some days than others? I encountered what is, to me, the most intriguing puzzle one morning not long after diagnosis. I was sat up in bed looking accusingly at my right hand immediately after waking up. I flexed my fingers in a sort of air strum and, to my surprise, my hand responded without any of the stiffness that I had become accustomed to. This felt like a spark of hope after a pretty bleak few months. After five or ten minutes the slowness seeped back in. I asked my neurologist about it at my next...