Re: internal tremors

[Elizabeth Wands <ewands@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Barb,M'dear, would you mind repeating that???, ( grinning and ducking for my
life) .  You see how your postings have effected me?  I'm even talking
(writing) like you.  Keep it going, Babes,  most fun.  I agree, internal
stuff is the pits because no one can see what is happening.  They really
could if they saw my handwriting!

Love ya
Elizabeth
-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Mallut <Barb_MSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 4. ledna 1998 13:37
Subject: Re: internal tremors


>Emily....
>
>Errr....  MY washing machine is in the garage on concrete, and truthfully,
I
>don't hang 'round in the garage watching it go thru the spin cycle in order
to
>look for comparisons! <grinning>
>
>I CAN tell ya that living in a townhouse with neighbors within a few feet
on
>both sides HAS created a single annual event that DOES have an effect upon
my
>PD and it DOES strongly resemble internal tremor.  This is a terrible time
>physically for me because I can COUNT on this happening as long as I
continue
>to live in my townhouse.
>
>In the summer and autumn when I'm running my unit's 20 year old 3 ton
forced
>air conditioner and one particular next door neighbor's running her 4 year
old
>3 ton air conditioner, if  HER air conditioning unit's running alone ,it
>vibrates at SUCH a swift rate that I can FEEL that vibration thru the
concrete
>foundation of the building.   My skin seems to crawl and I feel that
>Parkinson-y "inner tremor" in my arms and chest wall to the point I want to
>scream!!!
>
>To counter-act HER air unit's aggravating MY physical condition, I end up
>being forced to run MY air conditioner simultaneously (significantly
raising
>my monthly electrical bill!).  My air unit has a slower vibration that
>generates a more ponderous (for lack of a better word), "feeling" thru the
>concrete foundation, thus causing no aggravation of my PD symptoms.
>
>Due to the 5 months of 100 + degrees weather in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley,
my
>neighbor runs HER air conditioner 24 hours a day to MY running mine maybe 6
or
>7 hours daily - PRIOR to her getting that new air conditioner.
>
>NOW - if I'm home when my neighbor's running HER air conditioner, I run MY
air
>conditioner to counteract the vibrations caused by her unit (and bless her,
>she's a dear lady, a good neighbor, and hasn't a clue about any of this).
I
>called a couple of air conditioner service companies to see if there was
any
>way to adjust or calibrate my neighbor's air unit to a different vibration
>(and I have NO idea how these things work!) and was told "Hahahaha.  NO!!"
>
>Sooooo... in addition to my own totally PD-generated "inner tremor," I also
>have a 5-month-a-year "air-conditioner-generated-inner-tremor." (shrugging
and
>sighing)  DO  you realize that we - your hubby Jim 'n I - have created a
whole
>NEW category of PD symptoms?  "Household-machinery-like-or-caused internal
>tremor!" <rueful grin>
>
>Barb Mallut
>barb_msn@xxxxxxx
>
>----------
>From:   Parkinson's Information Exchange on behalf of jim and emily jackson
>Sent:   Friday, January 02, 1998 8:36 PM
>To:     Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN
>Subject:        internal tremors
>
>Barb M., Sonia, and others:  My husband Jim describes a feeling "kind of
>like if you're in a house with a wood floor, and the washing machine is
>spinning and shaking the floor." (We live atop a concrete slab, and no
>earthquakes here in North Texas!  The floor is NOT moving.)  Is this
>anything like what you all experience as internal tremors?
>
>
>jemjax@xxxxxxxxxx
>