I just attended a lovely buffet luncheon and learned some new things about living with Parkinson’s disease. It was a terrific event, but I must remember the following going forward: If the plates […]
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Still Life Cool your heels on the rail of an observation car. Let the engineer open her up for ninety miles an hour. Take in the prairie right and left,
I made these up myself. You’re welcome! 1. Back in 1804, if both Vice President Aaron Burr and Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton had had Parkinson’s disease, Burr could have said
Louise Palmer created a comic book about her Parkinson’s disease. It’s serious and jokey – just like my website! Sing out, Louise!
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My all-time favorite article about Parkinson’s disease (Have You Lost Your Mind?) mentions that people with PD can remain cognitively brilliant in some areas (the article, written by a guy with PD,
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Federico Bitti, an Italian journalist, has dystonia, a form of uncontrollable non-stop muscle spasms shared by many people with Parkinson’s disease. He had to give up his job and eventually struggled to
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There are two reasons you should read this article in the New York Times (Looking for Parkinson’s Sooner): 1. It lists many symptoms people experience years before they get diagnosed with
Every Thursday, as part of my personal “enriched environment” initiative, I post a piece of art, usually from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which recently released online some 400,000 high-resolution
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I just read a 2012 physician’s guide to non-motor symptoms of PD. I hope it opens for you here. Here’s an itemized list from the Table of Contents: Drooling Olfactory
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According to this NY Times article, “About one-third of Americans 85 and older have Alzheimer’s disease.” The article focuses on what will happen in New York City as the city’s
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