Living with Parkinson’s: Sister’s emotional journey caring for her brother

Robert Gardner is living with Parkinson’s Disease. His sister Susan Stocker is his caregiver.

For the last 30 years, he was able to live on his own in Asheville, North Carolina. Then Hurricane Helene hit.

“I started to get some phone calls from friends and neighbors that Robert wasn’t doing well. There was no power. There was no running water. My husband Mike and I decided let’s go. We dropped everything. We loaded up the car with hundreds of dollars of supplies and food and we drove 12 straight hours to Asheville,” Stocker said…

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