“Brrrrrrring, BRRRRrring…BRRRRRRING, BRRRRRRING…”
The telephone is ringing. Your Mind shouts out in
frustration “I’m trying to have my dinner!” Your body gets up to answer it,
“Oh, its Parkinson’s yet again…yes…a tremor on the way…does it have to be
now?…ok I’ll tell Mind…”
Living with the daily challenges of Parkinson’s is like
overhearing your body talking to Parkinson’s on the telephone but you only hear your body's
side of the conversation. You try to extrapolate what
Parkinson’s is saying through the reaction of your body and how it negotiates
with Parkinson’s. Sometimes your body is reverential to what is demanded of it
and surrenders to the symptoms. Other times it is defiant. As you overhear this
it is your job to persuade yourself that the edicts of Parkinson’s are not set
in stone; your body has to listen to them but your mind can interpret what they
mean, mould them like clay into any shape you like. Once this is acknowledged
you can then tell your body what you want it to do. Again, sometimes it
is reverential and other times it is defiant. But, at least you are influencing
your body again.
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