Famous people with Parkinson’s…
There are many well-known people with Parkinson’s out there in the world. It chooses the special ones, I say. There are those who have risen to fame in other spheres where they are known as actors, singers or other claims to fame. When you hear the name Michael J Fox, is it Parkinson’s that most…
Keep readingOh knickers!
(a silly thing happened the other day!)I wrote this poem the other day. Well, I started to write it, couldn’t find it when I went back to try to find it and finish it and then gave up and wrote the other poem you may have seen. As I did find the original – this…
Keep reading“In the knickers of time…”
A silly little poem, just because sometimes I don’t want my life to be all about Parkinson’s. I offer this poem, that pokes fun at me to show that life doesn’t have to always be serious. I often laugh at myself, cos I am apt to do silly things from time to time. This was…
Keep readingHappy to be helping and battling the bugs…
It is true what they say about retirement. Sometimes life feels so busy that I wonder how I found the time to work! I have even had difficulty getting to write any blog posts. I just haven’t had the time. The same goes for my podcasts. I have had a bug that made me lose…
Keep readingBattling the bugs and the boredom…
I have a few things that always seem to happen to me, in relation to my health. I have a delightful (sarcasm) collection of maladies and afflictions. By the time Parkinson’s had come along, I already had a bout of depression, I have got a hiatus hernia and arthritis is basically attacking every joint in…
Keep readingWhat do I need? What do you need?
We all have our own unique blend of symptoms that are the building blocks of our personal journey with Parkinson’s. You may know others with the same condition and because of this feel you ‘get it’ when being with a person affected by this condition. You may understand some, but not all of what is…
Keep readingWhy wait till you’re gone?
I remember many, many years ago when my children’s paternal great grandmother passed away. My children were very young at the time and so was I, being in my early twenties. I might even have had just my eldest son. Anyway, the great grandmother passed away and I was asked by my then mother-in-law if…
Keep readingAre we having a conversation?
In many, many ways women I find, are different from men. Not a startling revelation for anyone, I’m sure. The way that we communicate can be very different too. I have had many a conversation with my female friends about the challenges of communicating with our men. Women, I feel, tend to be more intuitive…
Keep readingWhat is a friend?
All my life I have not had a great many friends. For many reasons this has always been an unchanging facet of my life. I am not saying this for sympathy at all, in fact I have known people with lots of friends and they have had difficulty keeping them all happy. The more friends…
Keep readingInterview with Sandra
A few months ago I put a call out for people to be interviewed for “Parkies Patter – a chat about all things Parkinson’s” The idea is to get people who are living with Parkinson’s to tell their stories. This blog and my podcasts are partly my story, but what is hugely important to me…
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