GAH! Aw, jeez, don’t sneak up on me like that! You have to, like, digitally knock er sumthin’ Anywhat, about a week ago, I started taking sublingual vitamin B12. I had read some online discussion that indicated sublingual B12 was helpful for folks with the … Continue reading Trying Vitamin B12
As you may or mayn’t recall from last week‘s ThrowBack Thursday (TBT), I took a weekend trip to Roanoke, Virginia in late January 2019. And, as you may or mayn’t know, my web browser’s spell checker says that “mayn’t” is a perfectly cromulent word. (As … Continue reading Greensboro, NC and GSMNP (early 2019)
On Wednesday, May 10th, the Parkinson’s Foundation presented a webinar entitled “Expert Briefing: Understanding Gene and Cell-Based Therapies in Parkinson’s”. Given my recent posts about Stem Cell of America, this obviously was of interest to me, so I tuned in. (If you’d like to see … Continue reading ‘Nother Stem Cell Therapy update:
I don’t recall ever seeing this listed as a Parkinson’s symptom or as a side effect of any of the meds I’m on, so this may and/or may not be germane to this blog, but… I fart a lot. No, I mean a LOT, as … Continue reading What Am I Doing to the Ozone Layer?
O Happy Day! Today’s ThrowBack Thursday (TBT), like some other recent TBTs, is an amalgam of photos from three different trips. And what sort o’ trips might these be? Well, this sort: (1) the southern Virginia portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway, (2) The Known … Continue reading More TBT Hodgepodgery
I’ve been experiencing some weirdness with my Parkinson’s symptoms lately. I still experience anxiety and fatigue as each dose of levodopa wears off, and it still takes about half an hour for each dose to take effect. But there are two exceptions that I am … Continue reading Interesting Change in Symptoms
As I typewrite this, it is a very special time of day: that time between when I take my first pills of the day and the time when those pills actually start to work. A half hour of feeling weak, lethargic, and mildly anxious, but … Continue reading A Special Time of Day
Did you know that every SIX MINUTES, someone in the USA is diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease? Who will it be next? Not me – I’ve already been diagnosed. In any event, we’re coming down to the wire on this year’s Parkinson’s fundraiser…less than a week … Continue reading Move It!
Today, I learned that Napoleon XIV (Jerry Samuels) – the guy who made the song “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” – died a few weeks ago. From Parkinson’s, no less. For those who aren’t familiar, the song was his only hit, reaching #3 … Continue reading Parkinson’s Claims Another Victim
I returned from my latest trip two weeks ago tonight. Yet I only got caught up on my backlog of email yesterday, I haven’t even touched my snail mail backlog, and there are a few things I had intended to do in December that I … Continue reading South Mountains State Park (August 30, 2015)
Voyages with Parkinson's 