My guest blog for MS-UK

Towards the end of last year I was honoured to be invited to write a guest blog for the charity MS-UK. It’s been published today, so here it is: https://multiplesclerosisuk.wordpress.com/2017/01/17/guest-blog-living-with-parkinsons/  

Long term conditions – a challenge

What does it mean to be diagnosed with, and to live with a long term condition? A long term condition is just that. A condition that you are stuck with long term. It’s incurable. It affects your quality of life and it isn’t going to go away. It is something that you have to learn…

My Parkinson’s journey – chapter 1

In Oct 2016 it will be 3 years since I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. At that time, I had very limited knowledge of Parkinson’s – I thought it only affected old people and the only symptom I knew about was a tremor. I’ve always been a fairly reserved, private person, so if you’d have…