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This is Andy, an early retired anaesthetic manager, who is discussing his personal encounter with Parkinson's disease. In his humorous manner he discusses his support network and how helpful they are within his village.

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Yeah you don't, the grandparents are up the street, well everyone in the village is five minutes away, it's a small village, but there's a massive church, yeah so the grandparents are there and sort of because everyone knows him, there are only three houses in my street and to meet you next door is a bit grumpy but he's all right, he'll come help, he'll come coming out on yours. Costas is a policeman, and his wife's a policeman, and they're very helpful. Everyone grows their own fruit and veg and stuff, almost like a barter, you know? Figs, I've got loads of fig trees in the garden, so we went and picked some figs the other day, and gave Costas a bag full of figs. Next day, he'd come back with a bag full of tomatoes. And so, I was absolutely in the Simpsons in Parkinson's, just my garden, and so. But to tie it in there, to link it in, if I hadn't got Parkinson's, I wouldn't be growing my own figs. So there's a bit of a link there, I'll edit that out. I know you're thinking, we'll edit that out. You won't know, you'll forget. Oh yeah, so anyway, Custis, yeah, he's Custis next door, and he's very helpful. Yeah, when Nancy goes to England, she goes to England, well, she has been, she starts going back to England to do some work, so she's a seven night, because the pay here, the pay here, the downside of doing basically work here, the pay is terrible. So, you know, when she's away, she, you know, the next door, you know, they'll ring up and say, you know, I'm going to the shop, do you want anything? That kind of stuff. They'll help out. You know, sometimes when I get up in the morning, it's just really sore and I'm really sore. And so Alex, who lives down the road, she goes to, she goes past the kids' school. Well, everyone goes past this kids' school because it's on the high road. There's only one road. So she says, yeah, do you want me to set the kids for you? And so, yes, sometimes I do. Although, to be honest, they walk themselves now. can walk themselves to school. But little things like that, it is that there is a very huge support network.

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