April Is Parkinson’s Awareness Month
I’d like to encourage everyone with or without PD, to find some way to let your friends, your community, your clubs, and/or your online contacts know more about PD. There are many ways, but I’ll throw out a couple: send someone a link to this site or one of your favorite PD sites, post a link to the Parkinson’s Unity Walk to be held April 25 www.unitywalk.com on your site or a link to a local event or support group. Attach with it a summary of your story with PD–make it personal.
I have always thought that we help ourselves in this manner: ME Tell=Awareness for others=Action by others (donation/volunteer) = MORE Awareness = CURE sooner for PD!
So, get to work my friends…I’d rather have a cure sooner. Wouldn’t you?
Also, here’s another little note of encouragement I found this week. I’d like to dedicate it to my blogger buddy, Sherri! PD can only take away your dreams if YOU let it!!
Taken from Go After Our Dreams (by Collin McCarty, Blue Mountain Press, CO):
We live in a world that sometimes lacks understanding and forgiveness. There are times when nothing seems to make sense, and times when it never will. Sometimes the most we can hope for is an inner patience …knowing that the winds of change will eventually send a fresh new breeze into our lives. Sometimes the most we can hope for is someone who understands…who touches us and tells us – without need for touching or words – that it will be OK, and we know that it will be because they are here for us. And sometimes we just need to remember…no matter what the world sends our way, that it is so important to go after our dreams, and to reach for our goals…ever forgetting that, with every smile and effort and hope…we get a little closer…every day.
And Judy might add: with every blog! Thanks Sherri for being an inspiration to me!
