#deepbrainstimulation

I have a couple brief items that I want to discuss today. First, I’d like to let you all know where I’m at in the surgery process. It seems like getting approval through insurance has taken an eternity,

I joined the Parkinson’s Action Network as an Assistant Director for Washington State a few months back. I figured it would be one place where my unpredictable body wouldn’t be too much of a concern. I

So here we are again beginning a blog post with an apology for a lack of recent posts. Perhaps I shouldn’t be sorry, because I feel like there wouldn’t be much interest in reading what I feel like has

Welcome back. I apologize for the dearth of recent posts, but I really just needed some time to process everything after my consultation, and after learning that I have been approved for surgery. To touch

I meant to get this up sooner, but shockingly having six appointments in two days left me pretty wiped out. Now who would have expected that? That being said, the whole process was surprisingly pain-free

My Deep Brain Stimulation consultation begins with physical therapy tomorrow at 9 a.m. tomorrow morning; precisely 12 hours from my last dose of levodopa (a controlled release). Mercifully, this means

I went to bed last night after having an extraordinarily productive day by recent standards. I walked my dog, contacted legislators, wrote my second blog post, bought some lumber to brace my futon, made

My journey with chronic illness began before I was even old enough to drive. My first symptom, a stiffening of my left leg, first appeared on a tennis court when I was 15. I didn’t know it then, but I’d