Thyroid Balance

One of the difficulties I have with Parkinson’s disease is how visible it is.  There’s no getting around the fact that, when people meet me, they noticed my shaking immediately.  It helps to form their first impression of me, I believe.
 I’ve been thinking about this as I watch the presidential race.  We live in a […]

I’ve just read a very interesting article in The New Yorker by Atul Gawande, entitled The Itch.  The article itself is worth reading.  Itching is a really bizarre sensation that we all get. Think of it, A touch has to be very deep and hard to cause discomfort.  But a tiny sensation like a bug’s […]

It should come to no one’s surprise that I’m not a John McCain supporter. But I have to admit I get a little itchy win the issue of his age is brought up. Now, in the interest of full list disclosure, I must say that yesterday I took another step dangerously close to 60 years […]