The Sinemet Hunger Game – Round 2
A few weeks ago I wrote about the intense hunger I feel multiple times during the day, and about my need to balance eating when I’m hungry with making sure my […]
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Parkinson Pantheon Update: Dave Parker
American baseball great Dave Parker was, like me, diagnosed with PD four years ago. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette just posted an article about how he’s dealing with PD at the four-year mark,
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Sonnet Response to “Richard Cory”
On a recent sunny fall day I was walking the streets of Manhattan. My PD drugs were “on,” and I felt glorious and, well, glittery. I remembered a phrase from Edwin
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Update: Bruce’s Drug Regimen
I saw my neurologist yesterday and showed her my recent “Sinemet Hunger Game” post. She laughed at the title, said I ate healthy foods, then went about calibrating a new
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The Sinemet Hunger Game
Lately my body’s been waging a war within itself. The two opponents are (1) the need to take another tablet of Sinemet (carbidopa-levodopa) because the effects are wearing off, and
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Tired Sonnet
This is another mediocre sonnet that I wrote on the train going to and from Manhattan. However, it’s true that I often feel tired in the morning and don’t
Change #1 After the World Parkinson Congress
As a result of what I learned at the World Parkinson Congress, I’m changing some aspects of my life and on this Parking Suns website. The first change is that I joined
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Fabulous Fun Fox Foto!
Parky and I love everything about the Michael J. Fox Foundation. It has funded more than $600 million in Parkinson’s research, making it the largest nonprofit funder of Parkinson’s research
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Questions for the World Parkinson Congress!
Here are the research questions for which I’ll seek answers when I’m attending the World Parkinson Congress next week in Portland. Do you have your own questions you’d like me
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Swimming Lake George!
Last Saturday morning in Lake George (in upstate New York), I swam a 2.5 kilometer (about 1.5 miles) open water race to raise funds for the Michael J. Fox Foundation. As always, Parky the Raccoon,
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