Nine Years

Today marks the 9th anniversary of this blog. Which means that July 24th marked the 9th year since I was diagnosed with PD. Those of you who have followed my blog know that usually I write a post on the anniversary of my diagnoses and I started this post a few days before the 24th but I was unable to complete it until today.. Read on to find out why. My son and family recently moved to the Washington DC area and they invited us to come up and enjoy the Fourth of July. We had a wonderful trip and…

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Today is Parkinson’s Awareness Day!

The new symbol for PD Awareness is The Spark. Developed by a collaboration of organizations in over 80 countries, The Spark will mobilize our community and Spark change! “This World Parkinson’s Day, we’re calling on those impacted by the disease to stand up, speak out and unite to end Parkinson’s. We can break the stigma around our disease, lead the call to fund medical breakthroughs and together we can put Parkinson’s in the past.” PD Avengers website 4 -11-2022 Click here to read more about The Spark on the PD Avengers website and view the actions being taken to grow…

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