Hearing that your parent has Parkinson’s disease isn’t so bad when you’re expecting something much worse. That was honestly the way I felt the day that my mother, Sue Quinn, finally came home with a diagnosis for what had been causing all of her strange disconnected symptoms. Oh! It’s just Parkinson’s! Wait, it’s Parkinson’s? I […]
by Suzanne Quinn When is the last time you thought about marijuana? Well if you have a chronic health condition, you’re likely up to date on medical marijuana and have thought about trying it. When I was a kid, the legal drinking age was 18 or 21, depending on which state you lived in but […]
Everyone has heard it a million times. We all need to exercise. But for folks with PD it’s more than advice, it’s a form of treatment. After my diagnosis I knew I’d have to up my game. It was time to take a look at what I was doing and where I had been going […]
Welcome to my blog, a personal experience with Parkinson’s Disease. My name is Suzanne Quinn and I am a Philadelphia area women, mom and nurse on a journey with my family, like many of you, to live well with a diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease (PD). It’s difficult to understand what a Parkinson’s family experiences unless you […]