Last week I wrote about pessimism and the difficulties of the last few months. This week on some days I have been absolutely euphoric. My walking has sometimes been excellent, as it used to be before I was diagnosed. That feeling comes a few times a month, now more frequently than it used to. It comes when I start walking and feel a lightness in my legs, pushing off with the foot and striding out along the pavement.
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The downs and ups of Parkinson’s
I haven’t really written much in the blog recently. The last post was at the end of September, just before teaching began, when I left a video for my students to explain the symptoms of Parkinson’s. Over the last few months, I’ve had some ups and downs – more downs than ups, I think sometimes. I certainly haven’t managed to produce posts as frequently as I had before the summer, so in the near future I would like to talk more about specific events such as the holiday in Malawi, the return to work, voice therapy and physiotherapy, amongst others. These are all Good Things. However, today I want to focus on the downs of Parkinson’s.
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