Delay Penalty Few things come easily to those of us with Parkinson’s Disease. From the simple, tying your shoes, to the complex, rising from a chair, PD is there to make life more difficult. So anything that’s easier to do with PD, that doesn’t…
Losing a Step The moment it happened, I didn’t feel panic. No ominous music disturbed the calm of my afternoon walk, no menacing shadow fell across my path. No one whispered “run!’ urgently in my ear (Much good that would have done,…
Life Unfinished I used to tell myself that after 30 years of life, every extra year was gravy. A look at life lengths over the years backs me up. Life before civilization was “nasty, brutish and short” in the words of English…
Can you get used to Parkinson’s Disease? After 20 years with a Parkinson’s diagnosis, it seems like a reasonable question. Can you get used to Parkinson’s Disease? Does the passage of time soften the blows? Does memory of your prior self fade,…
Parkinson's News Updates Photo by Ousa Chea on Unsplash Seelos Awarded Fox Foundation Grant to Study SLS-004 Parkinson's News Today Seelos Therapeutics has been awarded a grant from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research to advance the development of its gene therapy candidate SLS-004 in…
Beating the Odds: Ganging up on Parkinson’s Disease My movement disorders specialist was a touch annoyed with me. I can see why. I was balking at following some advice she had given me, advice which was informed by years of experience and…
