Sweden’s Hospital/Hotels
Sweden, since the 1980s, has run “patient hotels,” which serve as a hospital/hotel combo for people who need some kind of monitoring by a doctor, but don’t really need to stay […]
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Other People’s Stories
Quelling Tremors One Hand at a Time
The BBC has a terrific video about a computer wizard in London who developed hardware and software that quell Parkinson tremors in the hand of Young Onset Parkie Emma Lawton.
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Gay, With Parkinson’s. What are the Issues?
Actually, I hope this is just the start of a conversation about what it’s like being LGBTQ and having Parkinson’s disease. Full disclosure: I’m gay, and I was diagnosed with
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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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Parkinson Pantheon Update: Janet Reno
Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. Attorney General, just passed away from complications arising from Parkinson’s disease. She was diagnosed in 1995, but continued to work long
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Reader Response – Shadow Over My Brain
As I posted earlier, I’m now reviewing books and articles about PD, using a reader response format that I created for students at my school, the Bronx Charter School
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Change #3 After the World Parkinson Congress: Deeper Reporting. Case #1: Yuma Bev
I realized at the recent World Parkinson Congress that I should be reading more books and articles about PD, and that my blog posts could dive more deeply when I
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Sunny Sundays!
In celebration of all things sunny, Parking Suns now features every Sunday a different YouTube music clip about the sun! This week’s entry: “The Sun Beyond the Storm,” by talented singer, musician and
Tail End of the World Parkinson Congress…
Sigh! The World Parkinson Congress is over! And now we’ve scattered to more than 60 countries around the world – all 4,500 of us. Parky and I blogged a lot
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