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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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