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I kind of knew something was wrong but could not put my finger on it.
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And you know it is evolved into the deep and rich understanding.
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The diagnosis was a massive shock.
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It's one of those big moments in your life.
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and you're not quite sure what it means.
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What was going on was that I had full blown Parkinson's running through my system.
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So many things were out of kilter and out of balance and out of whack.
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and you know the wheels were falling off.
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And Kate and I were fairly new into a relationship.
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we just had our first baby.
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So she was asking some tough questions I think.
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I go from being at peace to being very angry.
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and I'll cycle through that all the time.
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It's an eternal.
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Its an eternal, you're always wrestling with it,so you've got to just be with that.
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Parkinson's creeps up on you incrementally.
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One of the things I've had to do is adjust my driving.
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You can see my hand shakes.
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and I was having trouble with my right leg transferring it from the accelerator to the break.
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it just wasn't doing it in a timely manner shall we say.
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So what I've done is I use my left foot on the brake and my right foot on the accelerator.
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Hopefully not at the same time.
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And now I've made the transition and the neural pathways have realigned themselves.
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So it's my right side that is the weaker of the two.
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Ok you have a lovely day.
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There's a lot of pain in a person's, with Parkinson's, body.
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When people see me they just go something's not right.
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So if I don't deal with that quickly then they start filling in the gaps.
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I'm in a place where I can't really hide it so I don't.
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It won't affect anything I do and I'm not drunk or mad.
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because it keeps me very mentally alive.
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If I step away from this it will just be the right time for the right reasons.
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It's very rewarding working with clients and helping them establish their values and their vision.
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and then evolving their marketing and their brand.
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And that's in my bank.
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if I don't do that going forward it doesn't matter because I'll be doing something else.
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And I've got some ideas about that.
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but I'm not going to regret walking away from this career if I have to.
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I don't have a lot of proactive energy.
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We aren't growing the business at a rate that I feel is acceptable.
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It's a merciless disease.
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so I'm just working out what's next for me.
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because you know stress and fatigue aren't good for me.
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I might be holding him back so we're just talking about that.
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it's an ever moving conversation.
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It's an old person's disease.
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People get it at sixty-five.
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What we have underlying us if we didn't already have it before is a really profound friendship.
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Firstly, I would say you've got to have confidence to wear trousers like this.
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My mom was quite timid at this stage;
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but I have a really good excuse.
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Because last year, a woman who I don't know invited me to go on a three hundred ton boat with her for a week
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And I said yes.
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And I'm still alive,so my parents taught me a lot,
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they probably didn't teach me stranger danger
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But it was an incredible experience and one that I'm really proud of.
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And I think the thing that runs through these three examples
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where there are thousands more is blind faith in myself.
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Something that my parents have always had in me,
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it just took me that bit longer to find it in myself.
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you can tell by the very sweet expression on her face.
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you start saying to yourself what's the worst that can happen
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What's the worst that can happen
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I can get Parkinson's.
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Done that tick
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And it makes you think I can try some other things and see what happens
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And so my parents gave me this great basis to build on,of love and support,
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and actually, it being okay to fail, it not mattering at all,
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but it took Parkinson's to draw it out from me.
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And so I guess in a strange way I'm grateful to Parkinson's for doing that
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Because I never would have known the measure of myself.
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She was very timid,
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because I am the complete mix of my parents
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I'm going to end this speech in a way that shows confidence to me.
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As a girl with Parkinson's I am going to juggle
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And seriously what is the worst that can happen
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and my dad was a bit of a ham,a confident person that would go into any room and tell a story and command a stage.
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And I became a little bit of both of them.
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Confident in my own little way confident among my friends confident in situation I was comfortable in
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I was into drama in a big way
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you'd put me on a stage and I'd be confident
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but I'd come off as a little timid mouse afterwards.
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But they never pushed me to be anything more than that.
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My name is Emma
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They were always incredibly accepting of me and who I was and what I brought to the world,
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just as they were with each other.
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There were such different people
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and they looked at each other then they loved each other,
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and they loved me for being a mix of the two of them.
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And so I grew up in a situation feeling incredibly supportive,incredibly cared for
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and as if it was okay to be me.
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at this stage,I never really knew how important this would be for the rest of my life.
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And I carried on much in the same way
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until I became a small child all the way through to my teenage years right up until the end of my twentys,
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and four years ago, the age of twenty nine,I was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
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when my diagnosis of Parkinson's came it was a little bit of a shock
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I'm not going to lie to you.
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I'm not an older man, so I wasn't expecting it to be Parkinson's.
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And when you're diagnosed with something long-term,
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when you're diagnosed with anything,
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