Evil Nurses are Calling Me a FAKER!!!
It’s an odd thing.  When I have one of my bizarre, vivid dreams, I rarely dream about having Parkinson’s disease.  I’m usually either back in the Navy, or traveling somewhere, or in Japan, or conversing with dead relatives who are, suddenly, not dead anymore.
Last night, I dreamed about having [...]

Some items of note that seem appropriate for my 10-year anniversary as a person with Parkinson’s disease.
1.  Ten years after diagnosis, those with PD are 20 times more likely to experience a hip fracture compared to age- and sex-matched control groups.
2.  Regarding Parkinson’s disease dementia:  The dementia usually begins about ten years after diagnosis.”
3.  Regarding [...]

It was a noble experiment.  But it turns out that Doggie Gitmo is a necessity.
As we’ve discussed in the past, we let both doggies in to the bedroom with us at night.  Raven, the border collie, generally gets right down to sleep.  Shiloh, our silly 3-year old German Shepherd, generally feels the need to dink [...]

It was 10 years ago, January 30, 2000.  I was driving on Alligator Alley from Miami to Naples, Florida, trying to let it all sink in.
A doctor — a preeminent one in the world of movement disorders — had just diagnosed me with Parkinson’s disease.  He put his hand on my shoulder and said, “It’s [...]

I love it.
The GOP House Leadership invited President Obama to come speak with them at their retreat in Baltimore today.  They promised to be all respectful and stuff and not hurt his feelings or get in his face.  They even agreed to let the TV cameras roll as they engaged the President in a question [...]

Ain’t science COOL?
In a feat of cellular alchemy, connective tissue from a mouse’s tail has been transformed directly into working brain cells.
Ordinarily, so drastic a makeover would require the creation of so-called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells and then turning these into neurons, an inefficient process that can take weeks.
Marius Wernig and colleagues at Stanford [...]

If you live in the Midwest or Northeast, you’re more likely to come down with Parkinson’s disease.  If you are White or Hispanic, you’re TWICE as likely to come down with PD than if you are Black or Asian.
I’m a white guy from Iowa who graduated high school in North Dakota.  It was ORDAINED!
The study, [...]

Last night, so I’m told, President Obama delivered his first State of the Union address.  I didn’t watch it.  I was in bed, like most sensible Americans should be at 9 p.m.  (Jesus, I’m so old…)
I figgered I could get up in the morning and see what the pundits had to say about it, as [...]