"Key to Staying Active -- Stay Active!"

PR Newswire - "Do what you can until you can't. Then do something else," Parkinson's disease patient advises.

After 12 years with Parkinson's disease (PD), 57-year old Bill Schmalfeldt has this advice for newly-diagnosed Parkinson's patients.

For Schmalfeldt, that means writing. By early 2011, the progressive neurological disorder had affected his voice. Since writing and recording podcasts for the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., was the biggest part of his job, Schmalfeldt said he felt he had no other choice than to seek early retirement.

"I have trouble walking, I have trouble talking, but I can still write pretty well," Schmalfeldt said. "If you can't do what you did, you do what you can do."

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