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Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rolf Mantel <news@hartig-mantel.de> Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Parkinson's Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 10:56:57 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 45 Message-ID: <vbeg4m$ocg4$3@dont-email.me> References: <p5ekdjtm3fd3o6blke0ovkd5bl3aeselcs@4ax.com> <vbdmft$lp09$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 10:56:55 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a45c45f8dd28340c8e9cee3e5b06f5db"; logging-data="799236"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18/ptiV6LGWUAugRTTs12eG" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:TjHHGTXV96Nt/Cgp2Bi/VXZhFrI= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <vbdmft$lp09$1@dont-email.me> Bytes: 3112 Am 06.09.2024 um 03:39 schrieb AMuzi: > On 9/5/2024 6:33 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote: >> >> 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... > > Yes, those are hard stories. > But beyond our will or power. Zen is acceptance. My brother-in-law recently had a 'brain pacer' installed to aid his Parkinson <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_brain_stimulation> Rolf