Valley veteran looks forward to Valentine's Day dinner with wife after years of battling tremors

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Retired Marine Corp. Veteran Danial Payne loves strumming connected his acoustic guitar.

A hobby helium has picked up again aft terrible shaking enactment a intermission connected his playing.

The shaking hidden down his different passion, serving Valley veterans

Payne known arsenic the 'Voice of the Veterans Parade" for astir 2 decades.

The onset of symptoms came astir a twelve years agone erstwhile the convulsing was increasing progressively worse.

He noticed the troubling trembling during a meal party.

"I got a fork afloat of peas and I'm bringing it to my lips and they're going everywhere," said Payne.

Payne instantly confided successful his doc astatine the Veterans Affairs Medical Center successful Fresno.

"Of course, I was acrophobic that it was going to beryllium Parkinson's," said Payne.

Instead, his doc diagnosed him successful 2020 with Essential Tremor oregon ET, a neurological information that affects implicit 7 cardinal patients successful the country. The attraction is simply a wearable non-invasive instrumentality called the Cala kIQ System.

"It really measures patient's tremors utilizing question sensors connected committee the device, and past delivers stimulation to the median and radial nerves astatine the patient's wrist successful bid to nonstop the awesome to the encephalon that really interrupts the tremor and provides them relief," said Dr. Kate Rosenbluth, the President and Founder of Cala Health.

The 71-year-old rapidly saw a melodramatic betterment to his tremors aft utilizing the wrist-worn therapy, which is designed to replicate a timepiece, for the past year.

Payne credits Mary, his woman of astir 50 years -- for walking with him down the roadworthy of recovery.

This Valentine's Day, for the archetypal clip successful a agelong time, Payne volition beryllium capable to bask a comfy meal with Mary without the accent of shaking. The elemental motion he's looking guardant to astir is...

"Just the information that I could scope crossed the array and clasp her hand," Payne emotionally said. "That was simple. Couldn't bash it."

Payne's connection for different veterans shaking portion suffering successful soundlessness is 1 of encouragement.

"Try this device, spot if it works for you similar it did for maine and get your beingness back," said Payne.

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