Tag: Friends

A Hodgepodge – Part Two

And I’m back!  I noticed that I didn’t mention anything in the last post about how my buddy Parkinson’s and I are getting along. Things are pretty much stable, still some arm stiffness and shuffling when I walk and the occasional balance problem.  I don’t have the sticky feet problem nearly as often nor the internal tremors so, all in all, things are OK. As I have noted before, I follow many other blogs, websites, and Twitter accounts related to Parkinson’s, probably close to 50 if I took the time to count them all.  I have been planning to add…

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Living with a Chronic Disease

Last week Dr Soania Mathur, whom I follow on Twitter,  posted an excellent article, “10 Lessons I’ve Learned Living With a Chronic Disease” , on The Huffington Post.  Dr Mathur was diagnosed with Early Onset PD 16 years ago at age 27 and in the post she discusses 10 lessons she has learned from facing the challenges of living with a chronic disease. But as she points out in the opening  “Each of us is challenged in some way, be it in our health, our finances, our occupations or our interpersonal relationships, and many of the same principles that I…

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