Heated Rivalry Author Rachel Reid Details How Show's Success Is Helping Her Parkinson's Diagnosis

“I’ve been on a five-year waiting list here because I live in a very small place,” she continued. “Now he’s found me a Parkinson’s expert, a neurologist, and I have an appointment in a couple weeks.”

The help couldn’t come at a better time, either, as the romance writer explained her Parkinson’s is taking a toll on her work.

“It’s making it hard to write because I can barely control a mouse,” Rachel shared. “I can’t type for very long. It’s hard for me to sit in a chair for very long.”

She added, “I need to figure out new ways to write. I don’t know if that will be voice to text. I don’t know if I can write that way. It doesn’t feel natural, but I need to figure out something because it is taking me a very long time to write now.”

However, Rachel is optimistic that her newfound medical expertise “could change things” for her since she said she is “not really getting the treatment that I should be getting.”

“He also told me how to change my medication so I can sleep because I never slept,” she explained. “That change made me sleep through the night, which really helps with writing.”

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