Month: February 2022

The patient can and must tap into their own reserves of persistence, certainty and confidence that their words are valuable and worth fighting for. Talking often becomes harder with Parkinson’s disease. It takes an intrepid confidence not to submit to the isolation inherent in no […]

We purchased a large, motorized reclining chair.  It fit into our housetruck with about one inch to spare and loomed large in our tiny kitchen and living space of 64 square feet. During the hardest years, when Andy was disabled with Parkinson’s disease to the […]

Parkinson’s is a disease of ups and downs and continuous change. The trajectory of this disease does not go in only one direction. Living with Parkinson’s is never an easy experience.  Living well with Parkinson’s demands creative thinking and a hopeful spirit, both of which […]

 We are in our seventeenth year of Andy having this disease. Although he stopped practicing yoga for many years as his shaking became a hindrance, he has taken it up again. One of the successes we have experienced, while Andy lives with Parkinson’s Disease, is […]

Sometimes the people who stand with you in the hard times are not the ones you would have expected to be there. Letting go of people is really letting go of expectations about those people. I became attached to my two loving midwives and had […]