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	<title>Bill Schmalfeldt&#039;s Parky Blog</title>
	<link>http://www.parkinsondiary.com</link>
	<description>Writer, Blogger, Parkinson&#039;s Disease Patient, Brain Surgery Volunteer, Husband and Doggy Daddy</description>
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		<title>We&#8217;ll Stand Up, Congresswoman.  Will YOU?</title>
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Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy (D-OH) has posted a blog entry on The Huffington Post stating the obvious&#8230; that the teabaggers who taunted and threw money at a man with Parkinson&#8217;s outside her office the other day crossed the line and &#8220;went too far.&#8221;
Well, DUH!
&#8220;Unfortunately, some of those opposing health care reform went too far. Instead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkinsondiary.com/2010/03/18/well-stand-up-congresswoman-will-you/</link>
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		<title>He&#8217;s A NIIIIIIIIIIIICE Kitty!</title>
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Sometimes you really don&#8217;t need a reason to post a picture.  It speaks for itself.
Still&#8230;
My sister Becki has an evil cat.  His name is &#8220;Screamin&#8217; Jay Hawkins.&#8221;  Everyone calls him &#8220;Scream&#8221; for short.  He is the bane of my sister&#8217;s existence.  It&#8217;s the only creature on God&#8217;s Earth meaner than she is.  I think they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkinsondiary.com/2010/03/18/hes-a-niiiiiiiiiiiice-kitty/</link>
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		<title>22 Years with the Woman of my Dreams</title>
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My wife and I celebrate two anniversaries.  Our wedding date on November 17th, and the day we met, March 18th, 1988
I was a bit more than two months into my breakup with my ex-wife and was working for a temp agency in Milwaukee.  I was waiting for my bus when it started to rain &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkinsondiary.com/2010/03/18/22-years-with-the-woman-of-my-dreams/</link>
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		<title>Ohio Teabaggers Taunt Man with Parkinson&#8217;s</title>
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(Here&#8217;s the video!)
Not since Rush Limbaugh mocked Michael J. Fox on his radio show have I been so outraged by so-called &#8220;conservatives&#8221; treatment of a person with Parkinson&#8217;s disease.
Disgusting.
Protesters on both ends of the health care debate squared off in competing rallies outside the Columbus, Ohio office of district Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy (D-OH), who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkinsondiary.com/2010/03/17/ohio-teabaggers-taunt-man-with-parkinsons-disease/</link>
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		<title>The Curse of Nightly Throat Crud!</title>
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OK, I pretty much spend all day (ahem) clearing my throat and (ahem) driving Gail nuts.  But it gets worse at night.
Last night was the worst ever.  I would be in the middle of saying something and all of a sudden (clot!) have to stop because a wad of throat crud got caught in my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkinsondiary.com/2010/03/17/the-curse-of-nightly-throat-crud/</link>
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		<title>Getting My Listing on Viartis</title>
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I&#8217;ve used them as a source numerous times on this blog, and they&#8217;re listed on my blogroll.  Now, the good folks at Viartis are going to return the favor (a hundred-fold) by listing a link to this website and information about my book &#8220;Deep Brain Diary&#8221; on their site.
Who is Viartis?
From their website (it&#8217;s British, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkinsondiary.com/2010/03/16/getting-my-listing-on-viartis/</link>
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		<title>Guidelines for Treating the OTHER Symptoms</title>
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When you talk to most people about Parkinson&#8217;s disease, the first thing that comes to their minds (I surmise) is the image of an old, shaky man or woman, walking with a shuffle.  But those in the know are aware that Parkinson&#8217;s disease is so much more than a disease that affects motor function.
Now, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkinsondiary.com/2010/03/16/guidelines-for-treating-the-other-symptoms/</link>
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		<title>A Hoarse and Whispery Kitchenside Chat</title>
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YouTube has FINALLY processed the video.  So if you tried before and it wasn&#8217;t there for you &#8212; it is now!
Woke myself up this morning by laughing at something.  I was dreaming something funny, and I chuckled about it and that woke me up.  Can&#8217;t remember what was so funny.  But it woke me up.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkinsondiary.com/2010/03/16/a-hoarse-and-whispery-kitchenside-chat/</link>
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		<title>Feels Like a Punch in the Throat</title>
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This is really getting ridiculous.
It doesn&#8217;t matter that I&#8217;ve given up smoking cigars.
It doesn&#8217;t matter that I don&#8217;t ingest phlegm-producing stuff like milk or ice cream after 4 pm.
Nothing I do seems to matter.
Every night.  Every single night.  About an hour before bedtime, my trachea and larynx feel like they&#8217;re filling up with a very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkinsondiary.com/2010/03/15/feels-like-a-punch-in-the-throat/</link>
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		<title>OK, New Book (Last One, I Promise!)</title>
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OK, I&#8217;m all published out.  Everything I&#8217;ve written as a novel that I personally thought was good enough to publish is now published.
Today, I&#8217;m proud to announce the publication of my latest fiction novel:
UNDERCOVER TRUCKER: How I Saved America by Truckin&#8217; Towels for the Taliban.
Synopsis:  Billy Big Rig has lived his life on &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkinsondiary.com/2010/03/15/ok-new-book-last-one-i-promise/</link>
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