Tag: Awareness

Parkinson’s Awareness Month, Day Six: The Few, The Proud, The Us!

April 6, 2010 Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month, Statistic #6: Who They Are… Today is quiz day.See how many of the following ‘people’ had, or have, PD… Leave a comment – answers in the next few days…   Who had, or has, Parkinson’s disease? 1) Michael J. Fox – if you miss this one you get ... ...

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Parkinson’s Awareness Month, Day 13: The First Symptoms of PD

Parkinson’s Awareness Month, Day 13: Did You Know? The first symptoms… The first most common symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease: tremors depression loss of sense of smell stiffness arm that won’t swing foot drags falling tripping handwriting changes – smaller/illegible It’s important to keep in mind that each case is unique and different and each individual ... ...

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PD Awareness Month – Be A.W.A.R.E.

In honor of PD Awareness month coming up, here is a popular repost that was published last year… Enjoy! Aware: to be alive, wise, and sensible about something. To be knowledgeable, alert, attentive, awake, enlightened, informed, mindful, sharp of or about something. The opposite? To be ignorant, insensitive, unaware, and unconscious over or about something. ... ...

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Awareness for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Disease for Facebookers

…Breast Cancer awareness has been popular the past few weeks… many of us wanting the same awareness for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease… We thought of adding something different to our status for the next few days. Ex: Day 1 (Wednesday 13th): round off the number of people you know that have PD/Alzheimer’s (1-100). For those ... ...

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And Then There is You

The following is elaboration on a page at the  www.theRegulars.org website entitled “And then there’s you” and has been used by permission from Enzo. If you’ve read the feature here at Parkinson’s Journey about Eileen Colon of The Regulars you might realize that we can’t all be a ‘Strong Feather’ but you might have been ... ...

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Just Do IT!! Twenty-six alphabetical ways to “Do something(s)” to help bring Awareness to Parkinson’s disease this month!

Do accentuate the positive Do believe in a cure, believe in yourself, and believe there can be blessings in this illness Do care, be compassionate Do discuss your illness with others Do educate, evaluate, encourage Do have faith Do get involved in advocacy Do help, hope, and highlight others Do increase your knowledge Do joke ... ...

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