Parkie Blogs? There are Parkie Blogs?!

Yes.  Many of them.  There are funny ones (which I already wrote about here), and scientific ones, and reflective ones.

Just a few.

Scientific:  https://scienceofparkinsons.com/  May be more than you want to know, but he's thorough.

Reflective (my life with PD):  http://parkinsons.stanford.edu/pdblogs.html

A good collection, including institutional blogs (good for research updates):  https://www.healthline.com/health/parkinsons/best-blogs-of-the-year#1

How can you keep track of them?  You can bookmark them, and go check them out every few weeks.

Or you can use a Reader that collects blog posts and tells you when there are new ones - I use Feedly.  All I have to do is open my Feedly account to see who has new posts.  If you'd like to use Feedly (it's free), see this post.

Happy reading!

PD and Humor

I have found pwp to often have an easily tickled funny bone. Certainly, many of us have chosen to use humor as one of our coping strategies.  What I want to do here is to share my favorite pwp humorists:  blogger, Allison Smith, better known as The Perkie Parkie, blogger Terri Reinhart, and blogger-cartoonist Peter Dunlap-Shohl.

The Perkie Parkie, by Allison Smith, who writes about dating with PD (she has Early Onset PD), what she’d really like for Christmas, her “anniversary” of being diagnosed, girl's night out gone bad, her dog's view of Barkinson's, and much, much more.  Very irreverent. And honest.  http://perkyparkie.com/ 

Studio Foxhoven, by Terri Rheinhart, is funny and all too real. Recently she wrote about side effects, "I found myself dragging more and more.  I thought I'd learned to appreciate the Way of the Tortoise, but the Tortoise wasn't moving much anymore.  I wasn't ready to learn the Way of the Potted Plant." She actually writes other blogs, too.  I'm going to have to look into those, because I enjoy her wry wit.  http://studiofoxhoven.com/parkjournal/

PD Pundit has a series of darkly amusing and informative cartoons about PD https://parkinsonsdisease.net/author/peter-dunlap-shohl/  written by Peter Dunlap-Shohl.  I can't do his work justice, so click on the link to see some of his work - you'll be glad you did.

He also wrote and illustrated the book My Degeneration which explains more clearly than I’ve seen elsewhere what it is like to have PD.  I’ve heard it called a graphic novel, but it’s not fiction.  It includes a home visit from a personification of PD, typical (and horrifying) ways doctors tell patients that they have PD, the worries we live with, and much more, told with fiercely sardonic wit and clever illustrations.  I’ve given the book to many in my family, because it explains the world of a PWP so very well.  He gets it.

An addition: https://parkinsonsnorris.blogspot.com/   Very funny.

If you read online discussion forums about PD, you'll often find humor in postings.  I'm particularly thinking of http://forum.parkinson.org/  and https://www.myparkinsonsteam.com but I'm sure there are others.  We try to find the funny in life, and why not?  Laughing helps us cope.

Images Pixabay, and Amazon.