Why I Don’t Want Fries With That Shake

Lori Duff, Huff/Post 50 – My name is Lori Duff, and I have Essential Tremor. Essential Tremor is a fairly common, mostly harmless neurological condition that no one has heard of, and most people never bother getting diagnosed with. I call it the shakeys. My Dad has it, too. He never bothered naming it or getting diagnosed with it, and I was almost 40 before I stumbled on a magazine ad (in a March issue, of course) which made me say, loudly and out loud, “That’s it!” in the waiting room of a doctor’s office, the only place I ever read magazines.