Before going to the World Parkinson’s Congress in Montreal, I had suffered a mixed bag of sleeping habits. For many years I would go to bed and after about an hour or two I would wake up and be wide awake for the rest of the night. This reduced the…
The New Year
The Parkinson’s Family does not go on holidays!! I have been told on a number of occasions over Christmas to take a break away from Parkinson’s and enjoy the holidays. Well I have to say that I really enjoyed the break and apart from a bit of planning for 2013 and…
Neurologist Appointment
I had an appointment with my neurologist last week. As it turns out, I didn’t see my neurologist but one of his team. I wrongly thought to myself, here we go. I’m going to have to explain my story again as this was the third different neurologist I had seen…
The journey continues !!!!!
As we launch Move4Parkinsons to day I am reminded by the first blog I wrote a little over a year ago(see below) of what it was about for me on this journey. I believe that it is about the journey and not the destination and that empowerment is key to managing chronic…
Medication Awareness
With Parkinson’s, taking medication is a necessity whether we like it or not. As the old saying goes, you can’t live with them you can’t live without them. While the Parkinson’s medication greatly help us manage our symptoms, sometimes they do a little more than what we expect and this…
Empowering our abilities by daring to dream!!
Well 2011 has been an exciting and interesting year for me ,we had a fantastic evening of Christmas Spirit in Wood quay in Dublin on Thursday in aid of Move4Parkinsons, it was a really memorable occasion of song and reflection, laughter and friendship .Isn’t that some of the riches of life .I read a poem on Thursday…