Just Another Awareness Day
It’s almost World Parkinson’s Day. It’s something big on my calendar yet I’m sure to most people it’s ‘just another awareness day.’ In the six years I have had this disease I have seen the Covid-19 pandemic sweep the world and an effective vaccination program created and rolled out worldwide. Yet the drugs I am given to try to control this thing are unchanged. All that’s happened is they’ve increased slightly. My Parkinson’s has got a little worse but I’m still fighting. It’s a fight I fear I’ll never win. I don’t know why I wrote that. I know I’ll never win. That’s not a defeatist comment, it’s the truth. I can’t stop the degeneration. That’s what this whole thing is. I can retrain my body; I can work on my mental health. Ultimately today is the best I will ever be. Tomorrow will be infinitesimally worse. Those tiny, little increments creep up on you. You might not even notice until one day you realise bending down to pick something up feels harder. It’s slow. You discover once your meds kick in it’s easier. Ah. That’s Parkinson’s. I didn’t used to be like that before medication on a morning. It […]