Beyond the love and support of family and friends, humor has always been the thing that has kept me sane over the years. Yet, sometimes even humor fails me as it probably does most people from time to time. A little over ten years ago, I lost two siblings. Both were very dear to me […]
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 […]