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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org> Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Parkinson's Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2024 19:33:53 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: <p5ekdjtm3fd3o6blke0ovkd5bl3aeselcs@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 01:33:55 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="148f22b3d10a2ebf4d9f8dd88f6ad49b"; logging-data="565332"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18zbyPhy5ItKFLP5Ds8hNdU/5yDo3QJojg=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:jhYxq8Alp2/BqLuIg6mbE5QkQi0= Bytes: 2520 Yesterday I, thinking about my upcoming trip to Wisconsin, I found and contacted an old high school friend and discovered that he's afflicted with Parkinson's. We talked a while, and he was struggling. It was hard for me to understand him on the phone. Made me sad. Afterwards, I looked up another more recent friend, afflicted with Parkinson's. It was back when I was going with my then future wife to volunteer at an assisted home where she was activities director. My good friend Jimmy, on my Catrike https://flic.kr/p/2qegeF7 I don't know if the blurb on that picture is attached, so here it is. We eventually bought him his own Catrike. I'd sneak him out of the home and we'd go riding in the park against the wishes of his Power of Attorney, who eventually moved him away and gave the Catrike to the home. He died soon after that, probably somewhere in his early 40s, after being confined to another home where almost all of the other residents were little old ladies who played bingo and did crossword puzzles. I was, of course, banned from that establishment. ************************************** He'd had a successfully lawn maintenance business, and was buying a home. I drove him to his old home and the new owners invited us in to look around. I took him one day to the Veterans Cemetery so he could visit his father's grave. Super great guy, a music aficionado who regularly presented me with a new song to learn before the following week. I did my best with them and the other residents, most of them much older, put up his rock and roll because he was such a great guy. Ok.. time for a Brandy...