Individual Parkies Taking Charge
There’s been a bunch of articles recently about average Jane or Joe Parkies taking charge of their lives and speaking out. Shall we review a few? 1. Mike Wood Lifts […]
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Other People’s Stories
“Time” for Parkinson’s
The online Time magazine has a great article on Margaret Bourke-White, the famous Life magazine photographer who developed Parkinson’s disease in 1953 and fought it tooth and nail so she could
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Writing in Kindergarten
This week I was in a kindergarten class at my school, sitting next to a girl who was writing in her journal. Her teacher’s instructions were to write anything she
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Tweak Your DBS Voltage with Your iPhone!
Paul Detlefsen, age 44, of Iselin, New Jersey, has had Young Onset Parkinson’s disease for eight years. Like a lot of us! However, he is the first person to be
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DBS Updates: Now Used for Depression, Too
DBS, or Deep Brain Stimulation, has been an option for treating Parkinson’s disease since the late 1980s. Basically, surgeons drill two holes in your skull and insert tiny wires into
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Parkinson’s Disease Helps Save a Marriage – And Its Sex Life…
…although not in the way you’d expect. This week’s New York Times has a long article on open marriages, and the main couple that the article discusses are Daniel and
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Young Onset Parkies In the News
Here are two contrasting stories of Young Onset Parkies in the recent news. 1. Top Reader Response in This Week’s New York Times Chris, in San Francisco, wrote a reader
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Preparing to Be – Or to Care For – a Special Needs Senior
A Parking Suns visitor, Elena McDermott, recently sent me a swell list of online resources for people who are senior and disabled – and for their care givers. Let’s review them one-by-one:
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22 Push-Up Challenge to Raise Awareness of Veteran Suicide – Week 3
Last year Andy Dousis, a colleague at work, challenged me (and others) to do 22 push-ups a day for 22 days to raise awareness that every day in America some
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Canadian Parkie in the News
Yesterday’s CBC News (in Canada) reported on Robyn Levy, a young woman with Parkinson’s who fights back through exercise and art. (She was also a fellow official blogger of the last
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