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Two diets, no waiting

On October 28, 2025October 30, 2025 By Andi BrownIn Uncategorized2 Comments

If you're a boomer and that sounds familiar, check out this audio clue. You guessed it, the theme from the old Andy Griffith show. Hmm, wonder whatever happened to the little kid who played Opie. And what in the world does the old Andy Griffith show have to do with Parkinson's or aging? Two chairs, …

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My body is a three-car pile-up

On May 26, 2025June 3, 2025 By Andi BrownIn Uncategorized2 Comments

Or, if you prefer your metaphors more culinary, a Chinese restaurant menu, one from column A (upper body) two from Column B (from tush to toe). How about cinematic? My life is combination chick flick/ medical drama/black comedy. The point is that I’m living in a shitstorm of maladies. I’m visited with Parkinson’s for starters. …

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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…

Andi Brown's avatar by Andi Brown March 17, 2026

Lean 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…

Andi Brown's avatar by Andi Brown February 23, 2026February 24, 2026

I’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…

Andi Brown's avatar by Andi Brown February 11, 2026March 20, 2026
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