Hello I'm Rory Catherine Jones and before we get going this is a pretty big week for

movers and shakers and our parky charter. Thursday April the 11th is World

Parkinson's Day and will be marking the day by taking the charter to Downing Street

with a petition backing it with something like 20,000 signatures we hope.

Afterwards we'll be gathering from about 330 to 4 at Westminster's Red Lion pub.

So do feel free to join us there.

And if you haven't signed the petition you can find it at movers and shakers podcast.

com. Now on with a show.

Podo. You're listening to Movers and Shakers a podcast about living with Parkinson's.

The show is sponsored by Judge Nick Mostin's Old Chambers and by the generous

contributions of private donors.

So today we are going to talk about a pretty lively subject on which everyone will have a view,

the presence of Parkinson's on the What happened? Well it was quite ironic wasn't it because we were talking about

Pips and how you get assessed for Pips and whether or not it's a problem that it's such a

variable illness. And Pips being... Oh Pipsstein, sorry, the episode we rang, which was about benefit that's not means tested, which I said that applied for.

And you were asking me how it went, given how variable the condition is. and I think last time it was a completely

brilliant not intended at all but example of how variable it is because I came in I

started perfectly okay and then halfway through I

couldn't speak and then by the end I had literally crawl out of the pub on my

hand underneath. You said you were an agony? It was it was I was in agony yeah. Had that an assessment, I would have been thrown out in the first 15 minutes saying you haven't got a case and by the end it would have been, oh my gosh, can't even move.

You need every penny we can give you.

It hasn't taken you three weeks to recover, has it is?

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