Drill baby drill
That’s what I’ll tell the surgeon some months hence as he prepares to inject a virus into the command center of my very essence, that is, my brain. Yes, the clinical trial testing a gene therapy’s efficacy in slowing disease progression in Parkinson’s Disease is on, baby! In my typical Only Know What You Need…
Keep readingLean in…to lethargy
I woke thinking….Hmmm. Well I probably wake thinking hmmmm every day. Today’s hmmm translates as “how can I waste house-bound guilt-free time today? But is there really such a thing as wasted time anyway? I mean we spend time. We use time., sometimes wisely sometimes not. Either way, those five minutes are gone forever.. What’s…
Keep readingI’ve Flunked Meditation
I’d just concluded a delightful four-day visit with an old friend in Atlanta. We’ve known each other since we met at Camp.Mataponi in Naples, Maine at the age of ten. We were fast friends for all our nine years at camp, lost touch for decades, and miraculously reconnected about fifteen years ago. Our lives are…
Keep readingAm I on trial?
I believe I’ve mentioned that I was being considered as a clinical trial subject for a new Parkinson’s gene therapy. I’ve been very excited about helping to advance science and possibly finding some symptom relief. It’s a double blind trial, which means that some subjects receive the actual treatment during the trial period and others…
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