On race day you can find me running around, eating a goetta slider, or with my team Snags Snails. I've often been asked what that name means: Snag is a nickname that my Dad received as a kid after receiving a snaggletooth in a sledding accident, and Snails just felt appropriate because we are NOT a running family.
The Best Exercise for Parkinson’s Disease
What is “the best” exercise for Parkinson’s Disease? Of course, I am going to tell you my program is, or many of the classes taught by my instructors at Parkinson Community Fitness or Coors Core Fitness. But, you could also say the best exercise for PD is whatever research says is the best exercise at this moment in time.
My Parkinson Story | Linda Stark
In late 1998 a friend was visiting at my home when my husband came home from work. She asked me if he had had a stroke as he seemed to be pulling his left leg forward more than stepping by leading with his knee. Several months earlier he had started a new job which required him to drive back and forth weekly between northern Ohio to be with our daughter and me on weekends and to Cincinnati where he worked Monday through Friday. I hadn’t noticed his altered gait.
Making a Home Accessible Event
My Parkinson Story | Mike Debbeler
More than 12 years ago, Mark Schroder, then a board member of Tri-State Parkinsons & Wellness (TPW), a predecessor to Parkinsons Support & Wellness (PSW), asked me to join the board of directors of TPW. Mark knew that my late father had Parkinsons so he expected I would be interested in working with TPW. As TPW has evolved into PSW, I have had a wonderful and rewarding experience serving on these boards.
Caregiver's Corner | Kathryn McGrew (part 1)
Eighteen years ago, when my husband was first diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, he forbade me to tell anyone for two years. He argued that it was his disease and therefore his story to tell at the time of his choosing. The fact that Parkinson’s Disease had happened to him was clear, but it had happened to me, too. It had happened to us.
My Parkinson Story | Elizabeth Grover
The group for newly diagnosed Parkinson's patients continues to be a success story. I am forging ahead with a proposed regular date and time, and several participants have said they are looking forward to continuing the group. I also was contacted by a local physical therapist who has two newly diagnosed patients interested in joining a group. I never thought I would be in a leadership role, but this is one gift that Parkinson's has given me.
Years in the Works, Beyond the Basics Program Comes to Fruition
When a new diagnosis of Parkinson's is handed down, there is always someone who is surprised. No matter how much you may have known deep down that it was probably Parkinson' s, most of us are still surprised -- even horrified -- to be told we have a degenerative, incurable disease. How can we live with that?
My Parkinson Story | Cheryl Wirtley
MOTIVATED to Workout?
My Parkinson Story | Nancy S. Wetterer
Growing up in a wonderful, loving and caring family as the eldest of three siblings (brother Dave, and sister Becky) my parents instilled in us the importance of "being kind to everyone you meet because you never know what battles people are fighting" along with love, determination, goal-setting, religious beliefs and responsibility to name a few.