I don’t like Green eggs & ham! Have you seen my dopamine? It took an unauthorized vacation somewhere around your substantia nigra— didn’t even file the proper paperwork, just ghosted the whole operation. I’d check their home address, but it’s missing from the...

One voice can ignite change, but together, we create a movement — lifting each other up, pushing forward and making the impossible possible. My journey with Parkinson’s disease began long before I ever heard the words, “You have Parkinson’s.” For years, I lived in...

I have been through numerous things since Parkinson’s became my life. In the beginning I tried to be someone different from the disease. Emotionally I just wanted to be ‘normal’. I was too young or so I thought. Running from my diagnosis did not work. PD will be with...

It has taken me years to figure this out, but your body communicates to you. For example, after you eat a large Thanksgiving meal I’ll bet your body tells you it is tired. Well, Parkinson’s has taught me to listen to my body, to pay close attention to signs and...

In 2000, at the age of 24, I was running a franchise that replaced airbags and safety restraint systems in cars that had been in a collision. I started losing control of my left hand, dropping tools, slight tremor, and my hand would freeze in a position for a brief...

I outsourced my joy for years, padded my return with hired smiles, rented glee from others’ cheers, leased contentment across miles. Interned laughter from nearby places. Business was failing fast, days off piling like overdue invoices. Going under wasn’t an option,...

Every day with Parkinson’s is a fight—but it’s not the kind you think. It’s not just beating the symptoms,It’s waking up and deciding: today, I will win. Victory isn’t always flashy. Sometimes it’s getting out of bed on your own. Sometimes it’s lifting a fork without...