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Rachel - Interview 39
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Rachel feels she no longer knows how to do things that had once have been second nature.
Rachel was diagnosed 6 years ago when she was 70. She takes Madopar which allows her to function pretty normally. She is not sure whether things take longer to do is because of her age or because of her Parkinsons disease.
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