Category: Non-PD Ailments

Kentucky 2026 Trip Report (Day 0)

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Over the course of the last month and a half, I have on three seperate occasions accidentally thwacked my right elbow on a door frame or door. This first two times, it hurt for a few minutes then it was OK. This last time has been a different story. I now experience a flare-up of pain in that elbow whenever I try to lift anything with that arm. This is especially ungood when you realize my right arm is my “good arm”. The left arm is already weak.

So, as I was packing for my drive to Kentucky, I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to lift my own luggage. Ultimately, I ended up loading the luggage into the space between the front and back seats of my minivan, rather than in the pit behind the back row as planned. This was probably a good call. I probably could’ve gotten everything into the pit OK, but I doubt I could have lifted the big bag back out. In fact, when I got to my hotel room, I absolutely could not lift that bag onto the bed. So, for now it sits on the floor between the beds. Open…so I have to squat to get things out of it. But I need to be doing more squats, so perhaps it all works out for the better.

Seasonal Affective Disorder?

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After my first few years with Parkinson’s Disease (PD), I noticed that about once a year, the PD would get significantly worse for a few weeks or months. I would tell my PD specialist about the new problems, and we would change something in my pill regimen, after which I would soon feel significantly better. But it occurred to me recently that, at least for the last two years (probably more), these Annual Worsenings have taken place during the winter months, with the Annual Get Betterments happening in the spring.

I’ve never seen Seasonal Affective Disorder listed as being associated with PD, but I’m beginning to think I may have both. The true test would be to buy a winter home in New Zealand, but I don’t want to be on a flight that long. So, I guess we’ll never know. On a completely unrelated note:

Over the last coupla days, whenever I’ve opened Microsoft Edge, I’ve been greeted by the screen shown below…

I keep asking myself, how exactly does one “celebrate 50 years of Microsoft”? The imagery that pops into my head is a guy yelling, “Wooooo! Let’s get rip-roarin’ drunk and try to install Windows For Workgroups 3.11 from floppy diskettes!” And, as pathetic as it sounds…I kinda wanna join him.