Stitch This

You may know by now that I won the lottery of life back in 2007 when I was diagnosed with early onset Parkinson’s. Now, most of the time I choose to willfully ignore it. This is not bravery or inspirational behavior, I’m sorry to say. Rather, it is sheer blind ignorance, conscious ignorance, intended ignorance even.

I’ve written here before of the impacts PD has had on my life. Read the early posts on this blog…you will find a different life. City worker, commuter, mother only on some days tbh. Frustrated creative. Stressed and tired. But intellectually engaged, worthwhile and valued. But all through the changes wrought by PD, I have never sought out clinical info about this illness. I don’t, really don’t want to know what my latter years are going to pan out like. I know I should be informed but I just don’t want to be.

This ignorance is most definately bliss. I can almost kid myself I’m not sick some days. Result. But, I am becoming aware that as I advance in years, I need to look after my self. Take care of my health. Boring boring boring. But true.

so, I’m signed up for a new app which helps map and monitor PD symptoms, visible and other. It’s a research project, collecting data but also helping PD patients become more sentient regarding their symptoms, self care etc. PD? We’ve got an app for that.

So, let’s hope this is helpful to both me and the researcher team. If you have PD or are a career of someone with PD, consider visiting the AppStore and have a look. I think it’s worth a go. Anything is, right?