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Off And On With DBS

March 8, 2016 | Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Other People's Stories, Parkinson's Disease | Bruce

DBS (Deep Brain Stimulation) is a startling surgical procedure for Parkies whereby doctors drill holes in your skull and insert two wires that will stimulate the part of your brain that’s […]

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Rock On, Rock Steady! Fountain of Youth!

March 5, 2016 | Enriched Environment, Medications, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Other People's Stories, Parkinson Pantheon!, Parkinson's Disease, Physical Exercise | Bruce

Frequent Parking Suns viewer and comment writer Bev emailed me that she took a Rock Steady boxing class for people with Parkinson’s and felt great afterwards.  She wrote: I went

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Throwback Thursdays Art

March 4, 2016 | Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Throwback Thursdays Art | Bruce | 8 Comments

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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Parkinson’s Disease: No Laughing Matter

March 1, 2016 | Enriched Environment, Jokes, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Other People's Stories | Bruce

Just click here.

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Shining Star: Michael J. Fox!

February 29, 2016 | Michael J. Fox Foundation, Other People's Stories, Parkinson Pantheon!, Parkinson's Disease | Bruce

There’s a scurrilous online gossip newspaper article this week reporting damaging, overly dramatic things about Michael J. Fox.  Don’t ask me for the link, however. Instead, I encourage you to

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The Sun in Poetry

February 27, 2016 | Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Poetry | Bruce

The Awakening I dreamed that I was a rose That grew beside a lonely way, Close by a path none ever chose, And there I lingered day by day. Beneath

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Throwback Thursdays Art

February 25, 2016 | Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Throwback Thursdays Art | Bruce | 6 Comments

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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Parky Goes Big Time!

February 21, 2016 | Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Other People's Stories, Parkinson's Disease, Parky, World Parkinson Coalition | Bruce | 1 Comment

Most of us know Parky the Raccoon (official mascot of the World Parkinson Congress) as a cute, cuddly stuffed animal.  But OMG!  Here’s a larger-than-imaginable version waiting for us all

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Move Over, Parky!  Bruce Writes a Sonnet!

February 20, 2016 | Bruce, Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Poetry, Sonnets, Throwback Thursdays Art | Bruce

While flying home from California, I reviewed the older Parking Suns posts, and noticed that in the Throwback Thursdays Art, the sun is typically “off screen and to the left”

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Parky’s Thank You Sonnet

February 20, 2016 | Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Other People's Stories, Poetry, Sonnets | Bruce | 1 Comment

Parky had a great time on his trip to California.  He wrote this sonnet as a way of thanking our host, Bill Harwood. A car, a train, a bus, two

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Bruce Ballard

Bruce Ballard

My name is Bruce Ballard. I started this website in February, 2015, to promote an “enriched environment” for people with Parkinson’s disease, including myself. Enjoy!

I'm an official blogger for the 2016 World Parkinson Congress (Portland, Oregon, USA) and the 2019 World Parkinson Congress (Kyoto, Japan). Click on the logo to learn more!

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