I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.
I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.
God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is.
I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone.
I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. I'm not fearful of my condition or my future - but if someone is looking in my eyes for fear, then they see their own fear reflected back at them.
Chris[topher] Reeve wisely parsed the difference between optimism and hope. Unlike optimism, he said, 'Hope is the product of knowledge and the projection of where the knowledge can take us.
People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience.
It is what it is. But you have the power to turn it into an isn't so bad.
