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I had this crazy shaking thing, swirling round my frame, I missed my job, I missed my life, I just didn’t feel the same, but I’ve got friends, real good friends to the end.
- Dan Ryan Brooks
Instead of planning for nursing homes, we decided to plan for life. Instead of redefining ourselves as caregiver and patient, we reaffirmed our relationship as partners, recognizing there would be changes along the way.
- Nan Little
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- Bill Bucklew (quoting T. S. Eliot), On what inspired his walk across America
I would not wish the scourge of Parkinson’s on anyone. . . . Yet thanks to Rock Steady, most of the good things in my life are somehow related to my diagnosis