When my mother was diagnosed with Parkinson\'s in 1984, not having even heard the word before, I chalked it up to her growing old. When my husband, Alan, was diagnosed with Parkinson\'s in 1989, I met Parkinson\'s in completely different ways; concern, despair, overwhelming sadness, curiosity; what do we do now? How do we plan? Who can I talk to? and a vow to do something. Mother died in 1992, and after her death, thanks to the Human Brain