March, 2024 - MICHELLE TERRILL HEATH

March 28, 2024March 28, 2024
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Too Much Saliva

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I know this symptom could become another reason for Andy to stay out of the public eye and grow more isolated. In my moment of feeling grossed out, I also know emphatically that we need to find a way to live well with this too. […]

March 21, 2024March 21, 2024
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Swallowing

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Incurable disease is a life sentence.Let’s reemphasize that.Incurable disease is a life sentence not a death sentence. I thought that Parkinson’s disease hijacking Andy’s voice and rendering him a forever whisperer was as bad as that could get, until we were in speech therapy for […]

March 7, 2024March 7, 2024
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The Silence of Parkinson’s

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Parkinson’s has an effect on a patient’s voice and therefore on their ability to communicate. During Andy’s first 10 years living with Parkinson’s, his body shook like hell. The list of what he couldn’t do anymore was extensive and grew longer as time went on. […]