For people with Parkinson’s disease, getting dressed in the morning presents all kinds of challenges. In particular, many Parkies struggle to button their shirt.
Maura Horton, whose husband Don, a college football coach, has Young Onset Parkinson’s, came up with a brilliant solution: shirts with magnetic buttons. She started a company which produces these shirts for both women and men. What’s great about them? They look like the real thing.
I read about Maura and Don in the Washington Post, then checked out Maura’s website. If shirt buttons are a challenge for you, place an order!
At the moment, I’m fine with my own shirt buttons, except occasionally it takes forever to button some of my dress shirt collars. Conclusion: button-down collars are an invention of the Devil.
I recently asked a friend (Ambassador Kathleen Stephens – see recent post) to help me with the collar buttons on a new dress shirt I had, and it took her forever, too. We were riding the train into Manhattan for a dress-up affair, and presented quite a shocking image to the other passengers. Kathy had her hands at my throat, struggling over and over to get the two collar buttons into their too-small button holes. It was practically the opening scene of the Agatha Christie movie, Murder, She Said, with gender roles reversed.
Love your humor – makes for a great read!! AND a brilliant way ’round buttons – who could want more.
Keep it up!