Our move and new PD doctors

The Move to Virginia and New Doctors

During an Easter visit in 2012 with our daughters in the DC area, our son-in-law said that he wanted to have a serious talk with us.

We were puzzled and waited to hear what he would tell us.  We were surprised when he said, “It’s time for you all to move up here.  Laura Jane and Jennifer (our daughters in this area) will be the ones to take care of you.  You should come now and see your grandchildren grow up.”  After telling him we’d infringe on his family’s life, he looked me straight in the eye and said, “Come on.” 

We had never considered moving to the DC area- we always felt it was too expensive with terrible traffic.  Being asked to move here by your son-in-law motivated us to get busy, sell our house in Atlanta where we had lived for 42 years and strike out for an adventure in Virginia.





The first concern we had was finding a neurologist who specialized in movement disorders.  Dr. Michael Okun, Alan’s physician in FL, recommended Dr. Fernando Pagan at Georgetown University.  They had known each other for some years and he felt that Dr. Pagan would take good care of me.