GENNA DOUGLAS ‘LIVING WITH PARKINSON’S

I've known Genna for several years and it was great to catch up last week and capture several new images for my personal photography project 'Living with early onset Parkinson's'

"When I was diagnosed with Parkinsons at the age of 34 years old I felt like my world had crumbled around me. I knew very little about the disease. I’d never ‘knowingly’ met anyone with the Parkinson’s. I say knowingly as I’ve since learnt that everyone with Parkinson’s presents there symptoms in different ways. I for instance don’t have any obvious outward signs. I have no obvious tremor. Which is a blessing and a curse at the same time. I say that because it’s nice that I can be seen as a ‘normal 36 year old’ by strangers but at the same time people don’t understand when I have slowness of movement, I’m struggling, tiered or stumbling. "

Genna.