First thing to go was the area rugs. Wha??? You mean those beautiful 4x6 floor adornments that I schlepped from Marrakech all the way home with a stop in Lisbon, storing them overnight at the airport so I wouldn’t have to pay a duty on what the Portuguese authorities thought I would be doing: selling …
Month: April 2023
What Fresh Hell is This?
Forget the merry-go-round's brass ring; that’s not important here. I’m talking about the ponies. Let’s say that the horses represent Parkinson’s. Let's also hypothesize that you're in reasonably good shape; your meds are working most of the time, and have done so for a grand total of about three weeks. You try not to think …
Keepin’ it real, folks
I’d just been telling all and sundry how well I was doing, Parkinson’s-wise. It seemed that, after two years of trial and error, we’d finally hit on the right combo of meds, with the attendant diminution of symptoms. Episodes of Parkinsonian depression descended occasionally, along with the muscle stiffening and and leg tremors, but they …
Moving and Shaking 