A quick note about a new book I just started....The title is "Tuesday's with Morrie" and it's written by Mitch Albom who also wrote " The Five People You Meet in Heaven"
Once I finish the book I will write more about it but the very beginning struck a nerve....when any of us is told we have a chronic, devastating disease like PD or even a terminal disease like ALS ....one of the first hurdles we have to overcome is the realization that the world is not going to stop turning, life is going to go on as before with or without us and we can choose to live while we still can or we can throw the towel in and not live at all.
Recently I attended my second PD support group meeting and sort of turned a corner in respect to my thinking. Within the group there are many many people with PD who have lived with it for years. Although still working and living a somewhat normal life my mind had already resigned itself to defeat by PD.
More than a year after diagnosis I realized that although I am unable to live like I used to, unable to do some things I used to, I am still doing most things and I likely have a lot of living left to do.
We tend to forget how fragile and precious life is in the day to day rat race of life in general and we forget that it can all end in the blink of an eye for any of us for a whole host of reasons. So why feel defeated ? Why not live every day enjoying all of it we can ? That is the choice I have made and it has opened me up to a much happier existence, even with the shadow of PD lurking beneath the surface.
This new book promises to open my eyes even further as it deals with the business of dying so stay tuned, I expect to have a lot to say about it soon...
But now I must open a new post directed at caregivers/spouses.....
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