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Background.

I was born in Aldershot, England in 1954, and while my father was serving in the army, we travelled around a lot, spending three years in Malaya and three years in Hong Kong, before finally settling in Scotland in 1965 after my father signed himself out of the army. I went to secondary schools in Wishaw, leaving school at 17 for my first job as a clerk in Bank of Scotland. I left the bank in 1977 to work for a security firm, where I was employed as a driver for 13 years. I left this job after being held up at gun point in December 1990. I was unemployed for a short while before getting temporary work with the 1991 national census. I then undertook a training for work scheme, working with adults with learning disabilities. I worked for about 12 years in this field, then moved to supporting people with mental health problems. It involves working a 24-hour rota system including early starts, late finishes and sleepover shifts, which entail being at work for 24 hours at a time.

First signs.

The first signs began to show themselves around March/April 1995 in a number of different ways. My left hand seemed to hang at an awkward angle, which I did not realise until seeing photos of myself, when I began to wonder why my hand appeared to hang the way it did. Occasionally, a finger would lock in position, and I had to move it with my other hand to free it. A slight tremor appeared in my left hand, and unusual pains developed across the back of my left hand. As the summer wore on, I experienced pains in my elbows and knees as well. If I lay on my side or put pressure on my left arm, I felt a shaking feeling within the arm.

I first consulted my local surgery in May 1995, and my doctor signed me off work for a week. At the end of that week I returned to my doctor, who signed me off once more, and arranged for me to attend the local hospital for some x-rays. These x-rays showed nothing unusual, so he sent me for a CT scan and further x-rays. When these showed nothing I was referred for a complete physical examination, blood tests etc. Three months had passed by this time and I was still off work, when I was referred to a visiting neurologist, who after hearing my story and watching me perform some movements, declared after just 10 minutes that he thought I had Parkinson's Disease. This came as quite a shock, as nobody had suspected anything like this at all. He arranged for me to come into the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow for three days of tests and observations in October.