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Jan 01
Happy New Year
Happy 2022. I hope your holiday celebrations have been wonderful, and frankly I hope they continue. There are still four days of Christmas left, you know! Then again… maybe you’re the long-lost soul who still celebrates the “40 days of Christmas” ending on February 2? Despite the longer periods of daylight, I still think of …
Aug 24
Parkinson’s and Get-togethers
If you’ve known me for any length of time, you know that I was never big on going to parties. I am typically shy – particularly if I don’t know too many people in the room. If I was brave enough to show up (assuming I was alone) after several minutes and some awkward introductions, …
Jun 20
The effects (or sometimes lack thereof) of medicines
From the beginning of this adventure, I’ve been told that the medicine I’ve been taking would gradually lose effectiveness as time goes on. Of course, I think that’s true for just about any condition if you take the meds long enough. I have a pretty strong cocktail these days. As you will find out in …
Jun 06
Diagnosis Step 2
We left things in November of 2013 where I had been told I needed to return to the Kaufmann Building in Oakland to see a “Movement Specialist” – a neurologist with some training in movement disorders. It would be the END of January 2014 before I got to see her. Things at that time began …
May 07
Diagnosing PD – The first step
It was early one March morning in 2013 when my arm started to tremor on its own. I was married at the time and my then-wife looked at me and said, “why are you doi… no why is your arm doing that?” I recall being worked up about something and I was also pretty sure …
May 04
Remembering a friend
I am often asked how I deal with my disease. If I was smart, I would tell people to watch me deal with it. It would save a lot of explanation. But the talker in me goes on to explain, “one day at a time”. As I said in a prior post, this disease is …
May 02
Two Rivers, 30 Minutes – 4/30/21
My long-time cohort, Jason Togyer, interviewed me for his Public Affairs program heard on Tube City Online Radio; WZUM (1550 Braddock; and 101.1 FM); WZUM-FM (88.1 Bethany, WV) ]; WEDO (810 McKeesport and 93.3 FM); Click here to listen. By the way, my Public Affairs program called “In Touch” is heard on WKHB (620 Irwin …
Apr 29
Not(?) Stirred…
No doubt you picked up on the cute pun that normally refers to a mixed drink. Most people prefer theirs shaken rather than using a spoon to stir it. (Don’t blame them.) Frankly I have joked about this since my diagnosis. It eases the tension in the room when someone new enters the situation and …
Apr 29
Introduction
If you are a regular PBRTV.com reader, you might not be aware that I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2014 at the age of 37. Buy the initial diagnosis in January of that year, I had been dealing with persistent but mild tremors since the previous March. But the road didn’t stop there. This blog …
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