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eith first noticed something different about his left foot while dancing with his wife, Bernice, in 1991. Ever the perfectionist, he thought his dance partner was not following his lead. But a sluggish foot progressed into leg tremors, and by 1995, he had been diagnosed, at the age of 65, with Parkinson's disease, a disorder of the central nervous system that can impact a person's ability to walk, talk, swallow and control body movements.

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