Over the past few months, I have been spending quite a lot of time with a new friend I have met through playing bowls. We both enjoy each other’s company both at bowls and outside of bowls. She has got me hooked on a game called ‘Rummikub’ and we enjoy playing it together. Unfortunately, forContinue reading “A different way to be…”
Category Archives: self-care
Oh 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 – thisContinue reading “Oh knickers!”
“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 wasContinue reading ““In the knickers of time…””
Battling 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 inContinue reading “Battling the bugs and the boredom…”
Why 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 ifContinue reading “Why wait till you’re gone?”
Are 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 intuitiveContinue reading “Are we having a conversation?”
Parkinson’s vs Cancer?
I was at bowls the other day and I sat talking to another club member and dropped into the conversation the fact that I had Parkinson’s. He expressed surprise – which is a common reaction – and said that looking at me, he wouldn’t have thought I had the condition. He then dropped his ownContinue reading “Parkinson’s vs Cancer?”
The embarrassing stuff…
Last night I was looking at a Facebook Page that I follow relating to Parkinson’s. It has been a source of many topics over the years when writing my blog and subsequently in doing my podcasts. I found a post by a woman called Donna Parkhurst, who has Parkinson’s and also has a podcast comingContinue reading “The embarrassing stuff…”
Impulse control and internet shopping – A confession!
I have always enjoyed shopping whether it be for clothes, perfume, new or used I like them all. I like to potter around in junky little second hand shops and op shops and all the usual shopping haunts. When I have been immobilized by my recovery from my operations and couldn’t get to shops, IContinue reading “Impulse control and internet shopping – A confession!”
Parent to child – Child to parent. When does it change?
It’s funny I think when we look back on our previous lives and sometimes we remember events quite differently than when we were amongst it. Bear with me, as I try to explain. When I have reminisced with my children – now very much adults, my youngest turning 40 at the end of the yearContinue reading “Parent to child – Child to parent. When does it change?”
My journey with Parkinsons 