choices

To medicate or not to medicate that is the question…

If you are in the early stages of Parkies and even those a few years down the track, there seems to be a lot of variation in when or if people have commenced any sort of medication. This podcast talks about my choice which was to medicate immediately on the advice of my very experiencedContinue reading “To medicate or not to medicate that is the question…”

When is old, old?

I did a podcast yesterday about aging. As in the title, ‘When is old, old?’ The number you have reached chronologically does not necessary reflect your abilities and does not necessarily preclude you from certain activities. As in the case of my selling my e-bike recently at just shy of 64, this was a personalContinue reading “When is old, old?”

A wee bit OCD perhaps – being ‘particular’ about things?

As I have gone through life, I have become more and more a creature of habit. Certain things need to be done a certain way, or it is just not right and it is positively jarring. One of the things that I find I can’t abide is the way a toilet roll is put on theContinue reading “A wee bit OCD perhaps – being ‘particular’ about things?”

Reading a post from the Parkinson’s Facebook page that I follow, there was a quote from my hero in Parkinson’s, Michael J Fox. It goes as follows: I often say now I don’t have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson’s, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.Continue reading “Choices”