Advocates hope to raise awareness about lesser-known treatment for Parkinson’s [Video]

LITTLETON, Colo. — The number of people living with Parkinson’s disease in the United States is expected to rise to roughly 1.2 million by 2030, according to the Parkinson’s Foundation.

“It’s a grieving period process that just happens over and over,” said Lisa Cone, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s when she was 45. “I get to a place where I can accept that my life is still good.”

The journey to get to this place had a lot of challenges. It all started as a one-sided tremor that evolved into uncontrolled movements and cognitive decline.

Advocates in Littleton hope to raise awareness about lesser-known treatment for Parkinson’s

“I literally couldn’t make my hand write. I couldn’t fill out forms, I couldn’t write letters, I stopped doing Christmas cards. That kind of thing you don’t think of as a loss but it is. It hits you,” said Cone.

A recent study …