Year: 2024

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 […]

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. […]

The seasons of life rightly include different people at different times. Parkinson’s is a disease that often isolates the patient- not because of contagion but because the symptoms can make one feel unfit to be out in the world. The world can also be unsafe […]

It’s weird. Just like so many symptoms people with Parkinson’s live with, “freezing” can only be helped if it is known. Education is part of becoming at ease and living well no matter what the symptom is. The term “freezing” in Parkinson’s disease, refers to […]

Andy and I are in Hawaii for three weeks. We arranged a home exchange here last year and were able to do it again. Our borrowed house is on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean and we swim every morning at Kauna Oa beach, a […]