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For those who do not know me, I am the Assistant Director of Parkinson Support and Wellness. The short version of my Parkinson story is that in early 2019, my dad was diagnosed with PD. I started to volunteer for the Steady Strides committee in 2020 and was then hired when they were looking for a third employee. Really though, it is a longer story than that.
Exactly a year from today, I will be getting married. If you’d asked me a month ago if I thought my dad would still be here to see that, I would have said “no.” I’m still not sure if he will be able to walk me down the aisle unassisted, or if we will have a father-daughter dance. The future has been rather uncertain lately.
Almost five years ago I retired from a 35-year career in telecommunication sales and began in earnest to design the rest of my life. I had always planned to include a component of “giving back” to the community and started a search for a not-for-profit organization that could benefit from my experience in business.
Growing up in a wonderful, loving and caring family as the eldest of three siblings (brother Dave, and sister Becky) my parents instilled in us the importance of "being kind to everyone you meet because you never know what battles people are fighting" along with love, determination, goal-setting, religious beliefs and responsibility to name a few.
