Category: Parkinson’s Disease

Busy September

It has been a busy September.  We started the month with a trip to the Seattle area to visit family (here we are after a great brunch at Big Fish Grill), and now we are ending the  month in Michigan where we just finished attending the Grand Challenges in Parkinson’s conference and will visit family before heading home to Sarasota. This month we had appointments with our new Primary Care Physicians and our new Dentist  and continued updating our home, painting some furniture and a hallway.  We also made a trip to Tampa to meet with my new Movement Disorder…

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Five Years Ago…

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…I received my Parkinson’s Disease diagnoses, a prescription and a 90 day followup appointment.  Yep, that was it, no handbook, brochure or even a ‘what to expect’ message.  A lot has happened since that day five years ago and most, if not all, has been chronicled on this blog which will also be five years old in a couple of weeks.  Starting that day, Mara and I began researching PD, reading all of the information available from the Micheal J Fox Foundation and the National Parkinson’s Disease Foundation (now merged with the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation) among many others (see the…

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