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* Early symptoms include a voluntary motion tremor (not while at rest), typically worse in the non-dominant side. Holding delicate objects or firing a weapon accurately can be difficult (though not impossible), and general clumbsiness is to be expected. Ashley has been medically exempted from basic weapons training for safety reasons. | * Early symptoms include a voluntary motion tremor (not while at rest), typically worse in the non-dominant side. Holding delicate objects or firing a weapon accurately can be difficult (though not impossible), and general clumbsiness is to be expected. Ashley has been medically exempted from basic weapons training for safety reasons. | ||
* Moderate symptoms, or symptoms of a flare up if under duress, would progress quickly without consistent treatment. It would include worsening tremor, difficulty speaking or walking, an inability to hold objects steady. Losing visual and auditory ability is the "Point of No Return" for treatment reversing the neurological damage. | * Moderate symptoms, or symptoms of a flare up if under duress, would progress quickly without consistent treatment. It would include worsening tremor, tremor while at rest, difficulty speaking or walking, an inability to hold objects steady. Losing visual and auditory ability is the "Point of No Return" for treatment reversing the neurological damage. | ||
* Severe symptons occur only in the late stages of the disorder. Physical impairment is conjoined with a degeneration of mental state as the disorder effects the portions of the brain that control involuntary functions and memory. Late stage sufferers typically pass from unrecoverable organ failure. | * Severe symptons occur only in the late stages of the disorder. Physical impairment is conjoined with a degeneration of mental state as the disorder effects the portions of the brain that control involuntary functions and memory. Late stage sufferers typically pass from unrecoverable organ failure. | ||
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