How Does the Drill Know When to Stop?: Living Gracefully Through Parkinson's Disease

How Does the Drill Know When to Stop?: Living Gracefully Through Parkinson's Disease
Author: Perry Conrad
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2011
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1616636092

At forty-one-years-old, Perry Conrad experienced a tremor in his left foot while working as a triage nurse. Parkinson's disease crossed his mind, but the line of ER patients who sought his attention didn't allow him to entertain that thought for long. A week later the tremor in his foot was back, this time affecting his left arm and hand as well. Accepting the patient role was an assignment he had not planned for, but Conrad could no longer ignore the signs. After personalizing the instruction he was accustomed to giving others, Conrad consulted a neurologist who confirmed his suspicion: he had Parkinson's disease. In How Does the Drill Know When to Stop?, Conrad shares the insight that allowed him to accept and eventually overcome the limitations of Parkinson's disease and discusses the surgery he underwent seven years later that nearly eliminated his symptoms. If the cross you bear has brought you to your knees, or if you've ever considered your response To The unknown adversity that awaits us all, ask yourself, How Does the Drill Know When to Stop? and discover how past experience can help guide you through the unexpected hardship you may face tomorrow.

Old Age

Old Age
Author: Michael Kinsley
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1101903775

Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit." The notorious baby boomers—the largest age cohort in history—are approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it about keeping all your marbles? Or is the only thing that counts after you’re gone the reputation you leave behind? In this series of essays, Michael Kinsley uses his own battle with Parkinson’s disease to unearth answers to questions we are all at some time forced to confront. “Sometimes,” he writes, “I feel like a scout from my generation, sent out ahead to experience in my fifties what even the healthiest Boomers are going to experience in their sixties, seventies, or eighties.” This surprisingly cheerful book is at once a fresh assessment of a generation and a frequently funny account of one man’s journey toward the finish line. “The least misfortune can do to make up for itself is to be interesting,” he writes. “Parkinson’s disease has fulfilled that obligation.”

Recovery from Parkinson's

Recovery from Parkinson's
Author: Janice Hadlock
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9780997978339

Parkinson's disease is a curable syndrome. The sub-dermal bioelectric pattern seen in people with idiopathic ("cause unknown") Parkinson's disease is one that should only occur for a short time: when a person is in a coma or on the verge of death. In this emergency biological state, brain-dopamine amounts are normal, but release of dopamine for automatic motor function is inhibited - just like in people with Parkinson's disease. Over years, in people with PD, this pattern runs with steadily increasing strength. Four very different types of events can trigger this pattern. Four corresponding, do-it-yourself treatments can turn it off. When this pattern turns off, Parkinson's ceases.This book explains how to confirm a diagnosis of Parkinson's and how to determine which of the four triggers was used. It explains how and why the symptoms of Parkinson's match those of a person in this usually short-term neurological mode, and what to expect during recovery.