Sandra Wuest:  

Life I married a Navy man from Cincinnati, OH in 1960. We moved from Conn. in 1961 to four years of recruiting duty in Indianapolis, IN. From there we were transferred to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in 1965. In 1967 we moved to San Diego, California. Then in 1970 we moved back to Cincinnati, Ohio and my husband Jerry finished up his Navy career at Miami University in the NROTC in Oxford, Ohio for 5 years. He retired from the Navy in 1975 and we stayed in Cincinnati til 1990 and then moved more or less a suburb of Cincinnati called Hidden Valley Lake. We live in a Condo on the golf course. We have 5 children, 4 girls and 1 son. We now have 20 granchildren. Jerry was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in 1982 after several doctors, etc. We can look back now and see through pictures that he's had it at least 32 years. Through the good doctors at the University of Cincinnati he has kept moving through all of this. He had a Pallidotomy in 1997 when his medicine was no longer working for him. This is brain surgery that took 5 hours while he was awake. It was very successful and took care of his movements on the left side. He still has Parkinson's. Through all of this we started our own Non Profit organization called Parkinsinson's Disease Support Network, OKI. The OKI stands for Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. We mainly wanted to keep funds to help people here in the Cincinnati area and for Parkinson's Research at the University of Cincinnati. We raise funds through donations, a Golf Outing called the Jerry Wuest Golf Classic which we have done for 16 years. I've facilitated 2 support groups over the years, I only have one now which is at Dearborn County Hospital here in Southeastern India...Expand for more