Hi, Marty6! Welcome to our team. This is a great team, but so are all the other teams. Parkie friends are the best friends to have. Blessings, JudyTx 🌹

@A MyParkinsonsTeam Member - as someone whose husband is in the middle stages and really can't be left for more than a few hours, I would tell your wife to do any traveling she really wants to do now, while she still can. If you are in the early stages, it might be possible for the two of you to travel together, but on some days she might want to do things that are more physically challenging on her own so you have to be willing to find entertainment on your own. When my husband and I were travelling around the country, I would go for short hikes or runs on my own, but I would also do walks with him that were shorter and easier. The rest of the time we were together. I would have liked to go farther sometimes and to go backpacking, but I didn't feel like I could because he hated not being able to be as active as he used to be and I didn't want to rub it in that he couldn't. Looking back, I might have done better to occasionally go off on my own on longer hikes or backpacking because there are things I will never be able to do now and that makes me sad. I do regret my lack of independence, but even knowing that, I would probably make the same choices. I love my husband and will do what I can to protect his feelings. But there are times I wish he had been willing to let me do more on my own.

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