Posy

Posy wonders if the only way to live meaningfully is to keep challenging herself. She has been "working" very hard for a couple of months. She has conducted concerts, taken...

Posy realizes that it is difficult to be 100 percent jolly when burdened by a progressive, debilitating disease of any kind, but she is determined to make lemonade when presented...

It seems to Posy that researchers have decided that many people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) have probably experienced depression at some time in their lives. For some, it may be...

We all need friends. Isolation is a killer. Some People with Parkinson's disease have friends as caregivers. How lovely it must have been for someone to volunteer for this difficult...

Rollercoasters have always made Posy sick! She didn’t have a great beginning to 2022. After an utterly amazing third quarter of 2021, the final quarter was not good. By New...

Posy has become a medical detective! She can’t help drawing conclusions from published medical research combined with her own experience of Parkinson’s disease. This is probably a healthy occupation for...

In Posy's recent blogs about her Trans-Atlantic trips, she confirmed that having Parkinson's disease (PD) had complicated her long-haul travel. The triumvirate of lockdown, the fear of catching COVID and...

"Feeling bad is often not as bad as how bad we feel about feeling bad." (Posy, 2022) Do we expect too much of ourselves? Are we still viewing life as...

Posy has so many questions about the reasons for Parkinson's disease (PD) symptoms and the treatment for her condition. The answers she seeks are often found on the ParkinsonsDisease.net website...

Posy wonders if her brain created a proper disease as an excuse for her increasing physical and depressive ailments. Of course, Posy is apt to blame herself for everything. But...

Posy was trying to psych herself up to take a solo trip to visit her daughter in Florida. But, as finances were tight, and Parkinson's disease had made the previous...

It had never occurred to anyone (least of all the doctors) that Posy would be struck down with an "old person’s" mobility disease such as Parkinson’s. Remember that phrase in...

Are you still trying to go to work? Posy can cope with working from home, but she would find it too difficult to manage a teaching job, or anything that...

Genes, inflammation, diet ... There are thoughts on what might predispose or cause a person to develop Parkinson's disease. Posy wonders if having a classic Type A personality is a...

Last time, in "Lack of Regular Exercise," we heard how Posy's formative years encouraged her to be active. So, why and when did Parkinson's creep in? Is it a rogue...

Here in the United Kingdom, the warm spring and summer months tend to increase the whole population’s happiness and productivity. There just seems more point to life when one can...

Posy, who lives in the UK, needed to to see her daughter, who lives in the USA. She needed to. Her daughter was very unwell and she needed her mom...

Posy had always thought that the Sword of Damocles would fall on her one day. In spite of her seemingly great genes, her lifestyle could do with improvement. As well...

Posy is making her usual New Year's resolutions: To find a dance class and to attend the dance class! And, to eat more healthily (in particular, to eat more protein...

Looking back, Posy's bout of depression, anxiety, and akathisia (a kind of restless legs) may have been her first warnings of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Did any of you tread a...