• Back Home Again…but not for long!

    First a word about the new “Resources for PD” tab above this (or any) post.  I have added a page with links to the major organizations that provide PD support.  Every one of them can provide a wealth of information for patients and caregivers and most provide both web based information or you can call their 800 number for assistance.  By no means is this a complete list and I plan to update the list as I find new sources but I hope it will be beneficial, whether you are newly diagnosed and looking for as much information as you can find or you just have a question about a new symptom.  Check it out when you get a chance. And yes the list of blogs I follow is still coming, soon I hope 🙂

    We have returned from a great trip to Colorado, Oregon and Washington to see family and friends.  During our short Colorado visit we saw daughter Holly and the grandkids, celebrated grandson Charlies 15th birthday and had lunch with my sisters and my nephew Michael and his wife, Kelsie, whom we hadn’t seen in several visits.  Michael is a wonderful nature photographer and you can check out his work at Timberline Images.  We also met other friends for breakfast, lunch, or dinner so it was a packed few days before we flew on to the Pacific Northwest.

    Upon arriving at the Seattle airport, we drove to Prineville, Oregon to meet up with our close friend Ed who has wanted us to visit for years.  He lives on a hillside with a beautiful view of the surrounding area from a large deck.  We were treated like royalty as our visit included a steak and elk dinner on the deck with some of Ed’s friends, a fun dinner at The Red Martini and a massage!  The massage was wonderful and loosened up my back and neck plus I had a good conversation with the therapist about Parkinson’s and rigidity, you know me, always spreading the word 🙂

     

    We then returned to Seattle for a fun week with our two youngest grand children Angelina and Ariana, oh, and their parents, Dale and Monica.  We had a wonderful time with the kids during the last week of summer before school started. We again were treated like royalty, enjoying many fine meals, taking the girls shopping for school clothes, and Dale and I might have hit a brew pub or two 🙂  Best of all, we had time to visit and enjoy each others company.  It was a good time and even the Seattle weather was great.

    This was my second trip across multiple time zones since my diagnosis.  Strangely, I found that gaining the two hours on the outbound trip to Colorado affected my fatigue level on the next day more than I would have expected.  I tried to take my medication every six hours on the travel day, without regard to the actual time of day but the next day I was wiped out by early evening.  Just before we left I visited the neurologist and he doubled my Mirapex dose to 1.5 mg three times a day, so that may also have been a factor. The one hour time change to the Northwest didn’t have any noticeable affect and I again tried to keep taking the medication 6 hours apart.  Flying home where I lost 3 hours did not seem to have the fatigue effect either but we didn’t have visits and dinners etc. to attend the next day so that may be the difference.  I did make sure I had my Aware in Care kit (available here from NPF) and extra medication in my carry on, just in case.

    Next week, Mara and I will attend the Michael J Fox Foundation/AbbVie Partners in Parkinson’s event in Atlanta where we will be on the panel for a breakout session entitled ‘Building Connections with Family, Friends and Community’.  Topics will include how we dealt with the diagnosis, how we communicated with family and friends and what we have done to connect with the Parkinson’s community. We are excited to participate but at the same time we are a bit nervous as we understand that they are expecting over 600 attendees!  By the way, there is still time to register for this event if you are near the Atlanta area, or for one of the six remaining events held around the country, check the website link above for details.  I will write a blog post devoted to the event and our participation on the panel so stay tuned!

  • A Year of Blogging

    Well it has been one year since the inception of this blog and an interesting year it was, as outlined in my last post.  And as promised this post will contain some nerdy, but kind of fun, information collected by Blogger during the year. Blogger is the Google platform I use to maintain the blog.  They kindly keep track of how many times a page is viewed,  the approximate location of the viewer and the ten most viewed posts among other things.

    Page views:

    The number of page views was about 2200 for the period 8/6/13 – 8/4/14 or about 180 views a month but suddenly the last post went viral!  The National Parkinson’s Foundation (NPF) mentioned my last blog post on Twitter and Facebook on Tuesday and suddenly the blog received almost 700 pageviews on 8/5/14 alone!  So now the number of views as of this writing is 3055!  Thank you NPF and welcome new readers, I hope you enjoy reading It Is What It Is.

    Reader location:

    The top ten reader locations are shown in this graphic.

     
    Not much to say about this list, as one would expect, most viewers are in the United States. The top five States are Colorado, Tennessee, Maine, Florida and California.  A number of readers from other countries are also following the blog which is pretty cool!
     
     
    Ten most viewed posts for the year:
     
     

    Of course the winner for this year is the post which was mentioned by NPF, What a Year!.  The next most popular was the post about visiting the University of Florida Movement Disorder Clinic which is carefully disguised as a post about Hanging at the Beach! Others making the cut include Cognitive Training about playing Lumosity with PD, Team about Partners in Parkison’s, the Kripalu Wellness Retreat post, the post about Staying Motivated to Exercise and Support about our visits to the local support groups.

    You can view these posts and others from the Popular Posts listed just below my profile or from the Blog Archive,located near the bottom of the right hand column.

    So there you go, some nerdy but interesting (well to me anyway) information about the blog over the past year.  Again I want to thank all of you for your support and hope you will stick with me for another year as I travel this road of living with Parkinson’s Disease.  I plan to continue staying on top of  current Parkinson’s Disease research and I will continue to look for a clinical trial that I can join. I am quite aware of what “might” happen in the future but that doesn’t mean I have to give in, I will continue to fight and maintain a positive attitude because I believe we will beat Parkinson’s!

  • What a year!

    It’s is a time for anniversaries, first and foremost, Mara and I celebrated our 24th wedding anniversary with a trip to a cabin in the Smokies for some R and R and a wonderful dinner at a new restaurant we found nearby.  We had a great time and came home rested and relaxed in time for a nice pontoon ride on the lake for my birthday.

    Last week was also my one year anniversary as an official Person with Parkinson’s.  A lot has happened in the last 365 days which somehow included a lot of beach time!  I have researched Parkinson’s, met other PwP, both in person and on the web, took up Yoga and Tai Chi, and started this blog.  I have alarms set on my watch and my phone to remind me to open the little pill container I carry with me at all times and take my medication timely.  I have been to the University of Florida Movement Disorder Clinic to experience a multidisciplinary and patient centered approach to dealing with PD (highly recommended) and will return next winter for a follow up visit. I chronicled that visit in this blog post.

    We attended a week long retreat with about 70 other PwP and caregivers sponsored by National Parkinson Foundation at Kripalu where we had a great opportunity to share symptoms and how we were dealing with our diagnoses.  We heard from professionals who provided us with information and ideas, plus it was my first experience with yoga.  We stay in touch with many of the other attendees via email and Facebook and I highly recommend attending this retreat if you are within 5 years of being diagnosed, check out the NPF website for more information and dates for this year’s retreat. Again you can read more about it in this blog post from last year.

    The most important thing that has happened is being on the receiving end of endless support from my family, my friends, other PwP I have met, support group members, readers of this blog, and other bloggers and Twitter followers.  I can’t say thank you enough for all of the support that has flowed my way since my diagnosis.  It is amazing and I am humbled beyond words.

    If you read other blogs by PwP you will notice that we often talk of the downsides to having Parkinson’s but we also talk about how the diagnosis also opens  new doors and you meet new friends and your outlook becomes what positive actions can I take to beat this disease.  As Michael J Fox notes in this graphic, “..something is what it is and.there’s got to be a way through it”.  Again thanks to all of you for supporting me in trying to find that way and maintain a positive attitude.

    Speaking of new doors opening, in a previous post, I discussed the new Partner’s in Parkinson’s, a joint effort with the Michael J Fox Foundation and AbbVie, a drug company.  They are holding events around the country and we signed up to attend the event in Atlanta in September.  Since that post we have been contacted by the Foundation and asked to participate in a break out session called  ‘Building Connections with Family, Friends and Community’ which is focused on how the entrance/existence of PD has influenced the way we navigate and build relationships with others and how it has driven us to take action to get involved in making a difference for PD. It will be a moderated discussion with Q & A and we will be on the panel with three others with a connection to Parkinson’s.  We are looking forward to it, hopefully it will not be a soft voice day for me.  🙂

    Next week this blog will be one year old and I plan to have a short post to celebrate that anniversary on or around August 6th that will include some nerdy statistics about number of visitors and stuff like that, see you then.

IT IS WHAT IT IS!

Pedaling with Parkinson’s

As part of our stay here in Florida, we became temporary members at a local Gym that provides PwP specific classes along with all the other amenities of a large gym.  One of the classes they offer is Pedaling with Parkinson’s, a twice a week spin class specificly designed for PwP’s.  The objective of the session is to cycle for 40 minutes, keeping your heart rate between 60% – 80% of your MHR (maximum heart rate), and keeping the cadence (RPM) between 80 and 90 RPM per minute.

In order to take the class, I had an hour long evaluation that covered, among many things, medical conditions other than PD, what PD symptoms I had, and how my balance was – almost made the 30 seconds standing on one foot! Then, after taking my resting heart rate and blood pressure, I spent 20 minutes on the spin bike, upping the resistance until I couldn’t maintain 80 RPM for a minute, which provided my MHR.

I managed to pass the tests so last Friday I joined a full class of 20+ PwP’s for my first forced march on a bike!  After adjusting the bike, putting on the heart rate monitor and doing a light warm up spin (you know in the 60 – 80 RPM range) the instructor cranked up the music and off we went, upping the resistance while maintaining the cadence at 80 – 90 RPM for what seemed to be forever. OK maybe it wasn’t forever but it was a solid 40 minute workout, with brief slow downs for hydration before the next song came on.  All of our data was captured on a computer which then projected our heart rate and the percent of MHR up on a screen in front of the room.  In addition, the bike was equipped with a device showing our RPM, heart rate and % of MHR.

This program is based on research by Jay Alberts, PhD, at the Cleveland Clinic and a demonstration study by the Neuro Challenge Foundation here in Sarasota which have yielded promising preliminary scientific and anecdotal results.  The studies have indicated that doing this twice a week helps create new pathways (neuroplasticity) in the brain and participants have reported a reduction in tremors, better balance and gait, regained sense of smell, and increased energy. I have been interested in doing this for some time and I’m glad I get the opportunity to participate while here as they also offer this class at the YMCA in Knoxville if I want to continue when I get home.

The Neuro Challenge Foundation also sponsors the three dance for PD classes we are attending while here along with many other activities for PwP and Care Partners.  They provide a Parkinson Disease Resource Guide and offer a one on one Care Advisor Program to help PD Patients find the best treatment and support options available.  An excellent resource for PwP in the Sarasota area and one of the reasons we like to come to this area.  Speaking of dance classes, our Let Your Yoga Dance for PD class made the local paper, you can view the article here.  We have a good time in all three classes and it certainly helps keep me flexible.

Oh, did I mention we caught up with Dale, Monica and grand daughters Angelina and Ariana in San Francisco?  OK, maybe we were at Disney World’s Hollywood Studios and took advantage of the set.  We had a great time with them in Disney World and here at the beach.

We continue to enjoy our beach time in between dance classes and time at the gym and I can’t believe our time here is half over already!

Don’t forget to sign up for MJF Trial Finder by clicking on that large orange button on the top right and then you might as well join Fox Insight by clicking on the logo to your right!  Thanks.

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

 

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Pedaling with Parkinson’s

As part of our stay here in Florida, we became temporary members at a local Gym that provides PwP specific classes along with all the other amenities of a large gym.  One of the classes they offer is Pedaling with Parkinson’s, a twice a week spin class specificly designed for PwP’s.  The objective of the session is to cycle for 40 minutes, keeping your heart rate between 60% – 80% of your MHR (maximum heart rate), and keeping the cadence (RPM) between 80 and 90 RPM per minute.

In order to take the class, I had an hour long evaluation that covered, among many things, medical conditions other than PD, what PD symptoms I had, and how my balance was – almost made the 30 seconds standing on one foot! Then, after taking my resting heart rate and blood pressure, I spent 20 minutes on the spin bike, upping the resistance until I couldn’t maintain 80 RPM for a minute, which provided my MHR.

I managed to pass the tests so last Friday I joined a full class of 20+ PwP’s for my first forced march on a bike!  After adjusting the bike, putting on the heart rate monitor and doing a light warm up spin (you know in the 60 – 80 RPM range) the instructor cranked up the music and off we went, upping the resistance while maintaining the cadence at 80 – 90 RPM for what seemed to be forever. OK maybe it wasn’t forever but it was a solid 40 minute workout, with brief slow downs for hydration before the next song came on.  All of our data was captured on a computer which then projected our heart rate and the percent of MHR up on a screen in front of the room.  In addition, the bike was equipped with a device showing our RPM, heart rate and % of MHR.

This program is based on research by Jay Alberts, PhD, at the Cleveland Clinic and a demonstration study by the Neuro Challenge Foundation here in Sarasota which have yielded promising preliminary scientific and anecdotal results.  The studies have indicated that doing this twice a week helps create new pathways (neuroplasticity) in the brain and participants have reported a reduction in tremors, better balance and gait, regained sense of smell, and increased energy. I have been interested in doing this for some time and I’m glad I get the opportunity to participate while here as they also offer this class at the YMCA in Knoxville if I want to continue when I get home.

The Neuro Challenge Foundation also sponsors the three dance for PD classes we are attending while here along with many other activities for PwP and Care Partners.  They provide a Parkinson Disease Resource Guide and offer a one on one Care Advisor Program to help PD Patients find the best treatment and support options available.  An excellent resource for PwP in the Sarasota area and one of the reasons we like to come to this area.  Speaking of dance classes, our Let Your Yoga Dance for PD class made the local paper, you can view the article here.  We have a good time in all three classes and it certainly helps keep me flexible.

Oh, did I mention we caught up with Dale, Monica and grand daughters Angelina and Ariana in San Francisco?  OK, maybe we were at Disney World’s Hollywood Studios and took advantage of the set.  We had a great time with them in Disney World and here at the beach.

We continue to enjoy our beach time in between dance classes and time at the gym and I can’t believe our time here is half over already!

Don’t forget to sign up for MJF Trial Finder by clicking on that large orange button on the top right and then you might as well join Fox Insight by clicking on the logo to your right!  Thanks.

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

 

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  • Pedaling with Parkinson’s

    Pedaling with Parkinson’s

    As part of our stay here in Florida, we became temporary members at a local Gym that provides PwP specific classes along with all the other amenities of a large gym.  One of the classes they offer is Pedaling with Parkinson’s, a twice a week spin class specificly designed for PwP’s.  The objective of the session is to cycle for 40 minutes, keeping your heart rate between 60% – 80% of your MHR (maximum heart rate), and keeping the cadence (RPM) between 80 and 90 RPM per minute.

    In order to take the class, I had an hour long evaluation that covered, among many things, medical conditions other than PD, what PD symptoms I had, and how my balance was – almost made the 30 seconds standing on one foot! Then, after taking my resting heart rate and blood pressure, I spent 20 minutes on the spin bike, upping the resistance until I couldn’t maintain 80 RPM for a minute, which provided my MHR.

    I managed to pass the tests so last Friday I joined a full class of 20+ PwP’s for my first forced march on a bike!  After adjusting the bike, putting on the heart rate monitor and doing a light warm up spin (you know in the 60 – 80 RPM range) the instructor cranked up the music and off we went, upping the resistance while maintaining the cadence at 80 – 90 RPM for what seemed to be forever. OK maybe it wasn’t forever but it was a solid 40 minute workout, with brief slow downs for hydration before the next song came on.  All of our data was captured on a computer which then projected our heart rate and the percent of MHR up on a screen in front of the room.  In addition, the bike was equipped with a device showing our RPM, heart rate and % of MHR.

    This program is based on research by Jay Alberts, PhD, at the Cleveland Clinic and a demonstration study by the Neuro Challenge Foundation here in Sarasota which have yielded promising preliminary scientific and anecdotal results.  The studies have indicated that doing this twice a week helps create new pathways (neuroplasticity) in the brain and participants have reported a reduction in tremors, better balance and gait, regained sense of smell, and increased energy. I have been interested in doing this for some time and I’m glad I get the opportunity to participate while here as they also offer this class at the YMCA in Knoxville if I want to continue when I get home.

    The Neuro Challenge Foundation also sponsors the three dance for PD classes we are attending while here along with many other activities for PwP and Care Partners.  They provide a Parkinson Disease Resource Guide and offer a one on one Care Advisor Program to help PD Patients find the best treatment and support options available.  An excellent resource for PwP in the Sarasota area and one of the reasons we like to come to this area.  Speaking of dance classes, our Let Your Yoga Dance for PD class made the local paper, you can view the article here.  We have a good time in all three classes and it certainly helps keep me flexible.

    Oh, did I mention we caught up with Dale, Monica and grand daughters Angelina and Ariana in San Francisco?  OK, maybe we were at Disney World’s Hollywood Studios and took advantage of the set.  We had a great time with them in Disney World and here at the beach.

    We continue to enjoy our beach time in between dance classes and time at the gym and I can’t believe our time here is half over already!

    Don’t forget to sign up for MJF Trial Finder by clicking on that large orange button on the top right and then you might as well join Fox Insight by clicking on the logo to your right!  Thanks.

    “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

     

  • It’s a New Year…

    and it’s way past time for a catch up blog post. I think the last post of substance was about Giving Tuesday at the end of November, 2015! So this is my attempt to condense a couple of months of activity into one post. Not long after the Giving Tuesday post, we made an unscheduled trip to Traverse City, MI to help out Mara’s sister with her used book store. We have no retail experience and it’s been over ten years since I’ve worked a 40+ hour shift but we had a great time taking care of business. If you are in the Traverse City area, be sure and stop in at her store The Bookie Joint downtown just off Front Street. (yep, a shameless plug!)

    We got home just in time to get ready for Christmas and enjoyed the holidays with our family and then it was time to start getting ready for THE BEACH! We arrived last Saturday and were awakened at 3am Sunday morning by the sounds of a tornado (I’ll be darned if it didn’t sound just like a train).  Luckily no one in our complex was injured but a lot of the units had windows and screens damaged and a lot of cars suffered broken glass and other damage.  We hadn’t planned on being part of the effort to prove the theory of global warning but we are thankful that no one was hurt and our unit and car were not damaged.

    On the Parkinson’s front, I was appointed webmaster for the East Tennessee Parkinson’s Support Group and spent a lot of free time during December learning WordPress and upgrading the site to the latest version.  When that wrapped up early in January I spent my free time updating the Tennessee Parkinson’s Disease Resource site with maps and adding new information.

    Somehow I also managed to take an exercise holiday and I began to notice my symptoms were getting worse, particularly the brady kinesia (ridgity).  Since we arrived in Florida, I have been walking at least an hour a day and we have signed up for two Parkinson’s dance classes  We are also planning to sign up for additional exercise classes at the Neuro Challenge Institute, a great resource for Parkinson’s Patients in the greater Sarasota area.  I am already noticing improvement which once again proves how important exercise is for PWP’s!  

    We also signed up for a weekly Let Your Yoga Dance class. We were introduced to Let Your Yoga Dance while at the Kripalu retreat in October 2013 and this class reunited us with instructor/founder Megha and Joel and Melissa whom we first met at the retreat and meet up with every year while in Sarasota.  Our first class was yesterday and Megha had us doing deep breathing exercises, stretching and dancing in no time. It is a great class that not only provides exercise but brings ‘healing through joy’. 

    Coming up we will attend the Neuro Challenge Insitute annual Parkinson’s Symposium on Saturday where one of the topics to be covered is the Tasigna trial conducted at Georgetown University.  Tasigna is a leukemia drug that appears to stop or reverse some of the PD symptoms during a small test involving 12 Parkinson’s patients.  I am looking forward to hearing more about the first trial and the results and will provide more information in the next post.

    So there you have it, a short version of a very busy couple of months.  Oh, did I mention I am still wearing my smartwatch and providing data for the Fox Insight Trial?  If you haven’t signed up you can do it here, and don’t forget to also sign up for Fox Trial Finder at the same time and join over 52,000 of us who have already signed up!

     

    “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

     

  • Giving Tuesday is Almost Here!

    Tuesday, December 1st is Giving Tuesday. Black Friday is over and Cyber Monday is almost over and Tuesday will be a great opportunity to take some (or all) of the money you saved this weekend and give back by making a donation to a Parkinson’s Disease organization or another cause of your choice. As in past years, many charitable organizations have a matching plan that will double your Giving Tuesday donation for double the benefit.

    In case you need a little inspiration, I am reposting the following article “What is a Parkie? And Why are They so Expensive?“.  This article was written by Alan Zimmerman vice president of the East Tennessee Parkinson’s Support Group and posted on their website,  PK Hope is Alive . Alan is a strong and active advocate for Parkinson’s research and education. In addition to being Vice President of the group, he is the Assistant Tennessee State Director for the Parkinson’s Action Network (PAN) and a member of the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation (PDF) People with Parkinson’s Advisory Council.

    Take some time on Tuesday and support the cause of your choice,  There is a lot of exciting news on the research front and our donations can make a difference!  Happy Holidays!!

     

    “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
     

     

    WHAT IS A PARKIE? AND WHY ARE THEY SO EXPENSIVE?
    by Alan Zimmerman
     
    Parkies are expensive devils.  How does $25 Billion per year in the US sound to you?  Not only that,we discover another 60,000 Parkies each year, right here in good old America.  That number that is guaranteed to rise.  And, each Parkie spends about $2500 per year trying to be less Parkie with an assortment of medications and untold more on supplements.
    So, what then is a Parkie?  It is what people with Parkinson’s disease call each other.  Yep, the term is pretty much reserved for those in the Parkie club.  They would rather be known by everyone else as people with Parkinson’s (PWP).
    I know that you know someone who is a PWP.  You may even have a relative with PD.  You have seen them taking short steps and all bent over and very stiff and slow, or maybe they are using a walker to get around or perhaps they shake uncontrollably.  Maybe you can’t hear or understand them when they talk.  Perhaps you, nor they can read their handwriting.  The list goes on and on.
    Who gets this disease?  Men are slightly more likely and most people are in their 60’s when diagnosed.  But, about one in ten are 45 or under.  By the time your symptoms are bad enough to be diagnosed, one has already lost more the 60% of their dopamine.  You see, that marvelous thing called a brain compensates until it no longer can.  Unfortunately, that is not the blessing it seems to be.  As more interventions are developed, the sooner the diagnosis, the better.
    Wait!  We have new terms: diagnosis and dopamine.
    Let’s take “diagnosis” first because most everyone has had at least one of those.  In the case of Parkinson’s there is no definitive way of diagnosing except by physical exam.  And, it really needs to be done by a neurologist who specializes in movement disorders.  There is no blood test or scan that will determine for sure that the monster called PD has attacked.
    What’s “dopamine?”  It is a chemical found in the brain.  What does it do?  Lots of things that we know about and probably some yet to be discovered.  For one, it is a communicator.  Somehow it signals the muscles to do whatever the brain tells them to do.  It also has something to do with mood, pleasure, depression and many other important functions.
    What causes this PD thing?  Nobody knows for sure but most scientists believe it is probably a combination of genetics and something in the environment, like heavy metals, toxins, or pesticides that trigger the beginning of the disease.  That is pretty much where science is.  OK, so where does it start?  Nobody is sure where exactly but some of the latest thinking is that it starts in the gut or maybe even the intestines.
    So, bottom line, what is the cure?  There isn’t one.  It just gets worse over time as more brain cells die.  OK then, what is the treatment?  Mostly, at this stage in modern medicine, only symptoms can be treated.  A few things may slow it down like exercise programs.
    We also have this thing called Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS).  Hold on, what’s that?  It may scare you if I tell you but here goes.  DBS is where a PWP has one or preferably two holes drilled in the scull.  Then you insert electrodes into certain places in the brain.  Then, you attach all that to a battery which is eventually buried into your upper chest.  Oh, I forgot to tell you.  Usually the patient is awake when those electrodes are being put in place.  Why?  So that the neurosurgeon can get feedback from the PWP.
    So, I guess we need more research.  There is a bunch going on world-wide, but we could always use more.  Researchers eat and have families and require laboratories.  What that means is that research has a price tag.  What a price tag means is that more donations are required.
    What else is needed?  More movement specialist physicians for one.  There are not enough now and certainly too few going to school while the Parkie population increases.  So, we need to encourage doctors to devote an extra two years of their life learning the intricacies of movement.  Guess what?  That too carries a pretty hefty price tag.  So, we need more scholarships which means we need more donations yet again.
    So, let’s review.  People with Parkinson’s are growing in numbers rapidly.  The disease is progressive and degenerative.  So far, we can pretty much treat the symptoms only.  But, through massive research, we believe that disease altering therapies are going to become a reality pretty soon.  What is pretty soon?  Maybe 5-10 years.  But, that only happens with support for research, i.e. donations.

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