Showing posts with label A day with Parkinson's Disease. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A day with Parkinson's Disease. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
A Day With Parkinson's Disease, Final Page!
More with a whimper than a bang- the final
installment of A Day With Parkinson's Disease. A few thoughts to close
with. First, everybody has a different case of Parkinson's Disease. Some
have no tremor, some have strongly predominant tremor.
Some progress through the disease stages quickly, some slowly. Some are
affected more on their right side, others on the left, and so on. So a
day with PD is likely to be very different from one individual to
another. And one person can vary substantially from day to day. I took
notes all day on a day chosen at random to base this narrative on. It is
faithful to those notes for that day except for obvious exaggeration
for humor, i.e. exploding curry. If I seem to be coping well, it's more
due to luck than personal virtue. First and foremost I was lucky to
marry a person of great steadfastness and understanding. Second I am
benefiting from years of patient and difficult research and the
imaginative thinking of doctors, scientists and patients who have
collaborated over the long run to find the medications and surgical
procedures that I benefit from every day. Without them I would be
bedridden right now. Finally, thank you for reading and commenting. Your
thoughts and observations help me to clarify what I do and where it
goes. A cartoonist without readers is a bird without a sky. The entire
project is collected and sequenced here.
Monday, January 6, 2014
Sunday, January 5, 2014
Friday, January 3, 2014
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Monday, December 30, 2013
Friday, December 27, 2013
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Monday, December 23, 2013
A Day With Parkinson's Disease, the Complete Archive
This page contains all pages of the Day in Parkinson's series,
beginning with the first and ending with the last.
Now that the project is complete, a few thoughts to close with. First, everybody has a different case of Parkinson's Disease. Some have no tremor, some have strongly predominant tremor. Some progress through the disease stages quickly, some slowly. Some are affected more on their right side, others on the left, and so on. So a day with PD is likely to be very different from one individual to another.
And one person can vary substantially from day to day. I took notes all day on a day chosen at random to base this narrative on. It is faithful to those notes for that day except for obvious exaggeration for humor, i.e. exploding curry.
If I seem to be coping well, it's more due to luck than personal virtue. First and foremost I was lucky to marry a person of great steadfastness and understanding. Second I am benefiting from years of patient and difficult research and the imaginative thinking of doctors, scientists and patients who have collaborated over the long run to find the medications and surgical procedures that I benefit from every day. Without them I would be bedridden right now.
Finally, thank you for reading and commenting. Your thoughts and observations help me to clarify what I do and where it goes. A cartoonist without readers is a bird without a sky.
Now that the project is complete, a few thoughts to close with. First, everybody has a different case of Parkinson's Disease. Some have no tremor, some have strongly predominant tremor. Some progress through the disease stages quickly, some slowly. Some are affected more on their right side, others on the left, and so on. So a day with PD is likely to be very different from one individual to another.
And one person can vary substantially from day to day. I took notes all day on a day chosen at random to base this narrative on. It is faithful to those notes for that day except for obvious exaggeration for humor, i.e. exploding curry.
If I seem to be coping well, it's more due to luck than personal virtue. First and foremost I was lucky to marry a person of great steadfastness and understanding. Second I am benefiting from years of patient and difficult research and the imaginative thinking of doctors, scientists and patients who have collaborated over the long run to find the medications and surgical procedures that I benefit from every day. Without them I would be bedridden right now.
Finally, thank you for reading and commenting. Your thoughts and observations help me to clarify what I do and where it goes. A cartoonist without readers is a bird without a sky.
Thursday, December 19, 2013
A day with Parkinson's Disease, Page 5, and We're up to 9:00 a.m!
To see the entire day sequenced in one post, look here
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Monday, December 16, 2013
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Page one of a new comic: A Day with Parkinson's Disease
Hi folks, here is the first page of a new multi-pager. I don't know yet how long it will be, but multi, for sure. The plan is to take you through what a day is like with a chronic debilitating and progressive disease that undermines your ability to do just about anything physical. Think of it as positive wallowing, turning frustration, anxiety and misery into art. Ready? 3-2-1- WALLOW!!!!!
To see the entire day sequenced in one post, look here
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