Category archives: Parkinson's
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- Recent days were dark with a bitter melancholy we're warned PD may bring now and again, but I expected relief at the huge Scottish heritage festival I attend Memorial Day weekends since the 1960s, loud, rowdy, colorful and moving.
My elegant handlebar moustache has faded from a rich brawny auburn[...]
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- Who hasn't had a little mishap while shopping, a spill on Aisle 9, a bump in the rump by a heavily laden grocery cart, or a landslide of pillows in Household Linens?
These can be annoying and embarrassing but they're just a fact of life in a society blessed with plenty of consumer goods and reaso[...]
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- They say those who can't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it, which must apply to PWP who lug stuff up exterior stairs, like cases of soda pop, or 12 dress shirts on hangers.
Weight is immaterial. Doing the forbidden with risky footing is the error.
That's my growing suspicion, based o[...]
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- Movie studio workers set red traffic safety cones and coils of heavy electric wiring down outside Louie's #2, a down-at-the-heels chop suey joint on the cold, windy L.A. Harbor waterfront. Pungent Asian food aromas perfume the night and jukebox music rides the breeze.
Movie people work all hours [...]
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- Hearing my newest diagnosis, "Parkinson's Disease" at the largest Veterans Affairs Medical Center among America's chain of 152, plus more than 1,200 smaller health care facilities, from Guam to Puerto Rico, offered a certain guilty thrill.
The VAMC at Long Beach, CA, has served me for some 30 yea[...]
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- My favorite mall pastime used to be browsing among the finer menswear shops for elegant neckties at bargain prices and enjoying dinner out, when I tired of strolling the aisles.
Things have changed somewhat now.
My strolls are shorter since the onset of Parkinson's Disease and a tendency to wa[...]
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- "We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them."
Duke François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer
Israeli Parkinson's Disease expert Prof. Rivka Inzelberg was used to patients' gifts of homemade confections in the holidays, b[...]
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- Here I sit at my computer, stiff, achey, rank from three days unable to shower, my swollen eyes black as a panda bear's and a blood-soaked, brown-crusted bandage over my broken nose.
This is no portrait of a guy who tried to stop a train wreck by getting between two oncoming locomotives on the same[...]
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- Depression and coping with Parkinson's Disease is a major issue for multitudes of PD victims we hear from in this forum, but it doesn't have to be that way if everyone responds.
We still have no "miracle cure," but steps forward can be mini-miracles if they yield progress.
Courage, willingness, [...]
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- If you're the sort who enjoys a wager with a small sum riding on it, I've got a hot tip on a race between a guy 100 lbs. overweight and one much lighter on his feet,when he manages to stay on them, that is. The heavyweight contestant has a respiratory illness to slow his pace. But his older opponent[...]
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- Some authors I've met such as swashbuckling action ace Clive Cussler enjoy research as much or more than writing and the topic of Parkinson's Disease and related disorders demands plenty.
An affliction as troublesome to sufferers and mysterious and insidious in its relentless attack on increasing[...]
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- Well, as one newly diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease, as the holidays wind down to the New Year 2013, I'd rather have gotten a lump of coal in my Christmas stocking than this news.
We all would.
But if there's a bright side to learning we have a disease that can't be cured but[...]
