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My Dad is 70 and has been getting noticeably frailer recently - after a very active life, responsible job etc. He has had anxiety issues since retirement - and has had physical ailments which have in the past got him quite depressed - in a feeding back sort of way (tinnitus makes you feel anxious, anxiety makes tinnitus stay in consciousness: a cycle of worry)
He went on a trip with a very old friend a few weeks back - this friend is a seasoned traveller (and when young men they travelled together) - and so the perfect foil to my dad's anxiety about travel. By all accounts they had a lovely time - a tonic after some recent stress and what my Dad needed.
According to my DM friend advised him to go to the doctors when he got back as he was concerned at DFs frailty and tremors. I think this is not before time - and I have asked him a while back to engage with some physio as he is 'curling up' in stance and 'shuffling' instead of walking: his attitude at the time was of 'resigned inevitability', and I tried my best to encourage him otherwise - not easy.
GP has referred him and said its probably Parkinsons.
Most of info is coming via my DM. When I told her not to be angry with him for being slow at something in the kitchen - I had noticed he couldn't actually do it and was very upset that he couldn't - she said 'oh he CAN do it'. She is frustrated with him, and is too scared to Google Parkinsons yet. I have told her he has memory problems which she has not really noticed - 'oh we're all like that'.
AIBU to ring his friend and ask how he really was - and about his memory - or will it all come out in the wash anyway?