Going forward, I have to apologize for waiting so long to post this update. I really have no excuse for the delay, other than to say that whenever I thought about doing this, I kept putting it off, not wanting to take the time to write, or I felt I had other things to do.              After taking the cognitive testing, and being told I had Parkinson’s, I was settling in to that reality when, a month or so later, Kathryn was working at her desk and her phone rang. It was one of my Dr.’s that had been looking at my x-rays and noticed an abnormality on the left side close to where a nerve for my ear goes through my skull to my brain. The first thing Kathryn heard was, “Is your husband deaf in his left ear?” Kathryn replied that, yes, I was deaf in my left ear. The dr. had been looking at an x-ray and noticed on that nerve, right where it goes through the skull, what he said was a shwanoma, which is a thickening of the coating of the nerve. In some people found to have this “thickening”, it does nothing  and life goes on. Some people, like your’s truly, it causes the ear to go deaf, and in a small minority of people, the shwanoma very slowly keeps growing, and has to be rectified before it goes through the skull into the brain and causes some real problems. So, from the time it was found until now, I have had to go in every few months to a year for another MRI, to make sure it is not enlarging or moving further towards my brain. So far, the only problems I have had are with my balance.