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How are you?

Writer: Rose DonaldsonRose Donaldson

When people ask what are your symptoms

It's difficult to just pick one

But start at the top, then to the middle

I'll keep going until I'm done.


Everyone knows about the shaking

Everyone thinks you should be old

But tremors are just one aspect

With young onset PD, another truth be told.


I'll start at the top with some brainfog

Then add loss of smell, like that for years

Then there's speaking and swallowing

If no therapy can bring you to tears.


With stiiff neck and shoulder

No arm swing and bad gait

It's getting more obvious

That prevention is too late.


With stomach, bowel and digestion

Pain and discomfort to add

Meds sometimes help

If they don't it gets bad.


Stiff glutes, hamstrings and calves

Make walking and balance much worse

Freezing and stalling can cause you to fall

That's when mentally it feels like you've been cursed.


So when you ask a person with PD

How are you, how'd you feel, how 've been

They'll probably just say fine

'Cos they'll be too tired to say what's unseen.


4件のコメント


Valerie Bowden
Valerie Bowden
2024年2月08日

You’ve got it in a nutshell! But you’ve forgotten to include speech which has become more like animal grunts and incessant drooling that soaks your clothes.along with facial dystonie which distorts your face, giving you a grotesque appearance.

いいね!

Keith Trayling
Keith Trayling
2024年1月31日

Can relate to all of that Rose, we're allin this together

いいね!

Alison Blevins
Alison Blevins
2024年1月31日

Loved this at the Open Mic, an excellent of the lottery of Parkinson's.

いいね!

Jarlath Busby
Jarlath Busby
2024年1月31日

Rose, I know that feeling like your body is playing a deranged symptom sweepstake

いいね!
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