The Parkinson’s Association of San Diego will hold its 20th annual walk to raise money for its programs supporting people living with disease and their family caregivers on Saturday at Liberty Station in Point Loma.
There is not yet a cure for the condition, but patients can ease their symptoms through medicines, therapy, exercises and surgery, like deep brain stimulation. “You can go on the internet and Google ‘Parkinson’s’ and you see all kinds of things that may be alarming or scary, thinking, ‘Oh no, that’s what’s going to happen,’ ” Evans said. “Just searching on the web, not all the things you read are always true, whereas the organization listed things there that I found that would be more factual and I could understand them.”
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