"Where Life Meets Parkinson's." A blog for Parkinson's education, research advances, treatment strategies, and personal reflection. The goal is to provide support and resources to anyone either with Parkinson's disease or with any neurodegenerative disorder.
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." Bill Vaughan "Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one." Brad Paisley Maintaining a Southern Tradition for Starting the New Year: For many past years, I …
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"Always remember that the future comes one day at a time." Dean Acheson "Take life one day at a time because every day is a different day with new challenges." Penny Streeter The Diagnosis: I received the news of my Parkinson's diagnosis on Tuesday, March 11, 2014. This was 4,256 days ago. As I have …
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"There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles." Stephen Covey "I haven't gotten stuck with something because I just keep going, and I keep doing different things." Lili Taylor My Absence the Past Few Months: Three points to write about.•#1- Conflict of time between blog writing and article writing- Although I have been …
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"I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have." Sandra Bernhard "Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures." Han Suyin Précis: On Wednesday, May 28, 2025, I had total hip replacement surgery on my right hip. Why talk about hip surgery when the blog focuses …
"Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it." C. S. Lewis "Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Live Each Day: Every day, you accomplish something, and it makes you feel alive; you are alive. Every day you try to do something …
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"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it." Suzanne Weyn "I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life." Louise Hay 2019 Parkinson’s Awareness Month: To help support the month of Parkinson’s awareness, here are 8 posts from April- •2019 Parkinson’s Awareness Month- 12 Rules of Life With Exercise •2019 Parkinson’s …
“Hope is a function of struggle.” Brené Brown “What we know matters but who we are matters more.” Brené Brown Why do we learn? “The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in …
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"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity." Louis Pasteur To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job." Chin-Ning Chu Definition of Tenacity: <noun te·nac·i·ty \ tə-ˈna-sə-tē \> Tenacity can be defined as …
"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside." Wayne Dyer "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." Voltaire Setting the Stage: This is Mariëtte Robijn- She lives in the Netherlands and was diagnosed with Parkinson's at the young age of 46. Mariëtte has …
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"One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter." James Earl Jones "Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity." Abu Bakr Introduction: A new part of the recently completed PWR! (Parkinson Wellness Recovery) retreat for 2018 in Scottsdale, AZ was something termed "Daily Inspiration …
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