Parkinsons # 17
2022-01-18
With any luck this will be my last posting on this blog, at least for the time being. In post # 16 I describe how things have stabilized. Well they haven’t. Things got better. I went to Switzerland for the month of November. Of course my routine was interrupted. All I kept was the TCM herbal remedies. Occasionally I played the recorder and tried to avoid any stress, which I managed reasonably well.
I enjoyed visiting friends and family and staying in the new house we got for my younger son. It is in a quiet little town in the canton of Jura. Most of my friends and family came there to visit, so I did not need to travel all over the place. Instead, I toured the countryside with my e-bike and enjoyed the – for Switzerland – remarkably natural state of fields and forests and the wild limestone cliffs and canyons.
When I went for walks and when I traveled I used a walking cane to keep a better balance, since balance and occasional fatigue was the remaining issue with Parkinson’s symptoms. Upon returning home, I went to Acupuncture treatment which I plan to keep up once a month for general maintenance. I also picked up where I left my music playing. By the end of the year I added more to my repertoire, particularly on the piano. To my surprise I could tackle heavier stuff like Brahms, including the last Rhapsody without fatigue.
In January we had a major dump of snow. This meant hours of snow shoveling and I could not use the bicycle at all, so I walke up and down the hills, an average of 3-5 km per day. To my surprise, I do not feel any extra fatigue and my balance issues have completely disappeared.
I realize that in mainstream medicine, healing is not part of the vocabulary used in connection with Parkinson’s. However, for all intents and purposes and for lack of a better medical jargon, I consider myself healed. Actually I feel generally better than before I got this episode of Parkinsons towards the end of 2020. However, since this is not the first episode, I realize that another may follow; but by keeping up my routine of enjoyment, I might keep it at bay for a good while. So let’s keep our fingers crossed. In the meantime I will carry on writing on the other pages of this website.
Reflections 