I was reading this nice article online called 10 things your doctor won”t tell you about Parkinson’s disease.
The article opens:
Every year in the United States, about 60,000 people learn they have Parkinson’s disease, according to the American Parkinson Disease Association. The degenerative disorder strikes the central nervous system, impairing movement and balance, among other issues.
If you or a loved one has been recently diagnosed, these 10 things that patients who’ve been living with Parkinson’s for several years wish they’d known at diagnosis — which their doctors didn’t tell them — may make managing the disease easier.h
I found nothing wrong with the advice given. It was what advice they didn’t give.
What about Lewy?
Lewy body dementia, practically a kissing cousin of Parkinson’s. It seems ironic on a post about what doctors aren’t saying that they don’t say what is unsaid about Lewy body dementia. Wheww. That’s a tough sentence to unpack but I’m ranting on a blog so it’s OK.
But seriously, if Lewy body dementia is just the expanded version of Parkinson’s why do we leave it out o f a discussion on Parkinson’s, just like it gets left out of a lot of things.
OK, I’m done. For now.
Here’s an article I wrote earlier about Dementia Research Silos
Still upcoming this week
Dunk/Health update– today or Wednesday
Did he sell his soul to the devil?- Countdown continues with RJ –Thursday
-My Vinyl Countdown column — Saturday morning
The Afterlife — Sunday tentative
Is there such a thing as random? — Some random day next week
PS. Happy Birthday Captain Beefheart January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010 –(12/17 is my daughter Hannah’s birthday)