Predictable

A friend and fellow Parkinson's sufferer, who is a smart woman often says things that are so pertinent; both of us unfortunately understanding the other only too well as this lousy disease runs riot. I was thinking I would never have had the pleasure of knowing her, were it not for Parkinson's. As I've said so many times before, there's a silver lining to everything - you've just got to know how to find it. Living with any illness, having contact with fellow sufferers is invaluable, and I hope my friend doesn't mind, if I share with you something she said the other day which struck me immediately, as it encapsulated Parkinson's perfectly. She succinctly put PD in a nutshell by saying:  "The only predictable thing about this disease is it's unpredictability." I don't think you can put it better than that!

I was at the bank last week, and having to sign papers, I noticed the tiny box on each page where one is supposed to sign. The clerk handed me a pen and apologised for the space being so small. I smiled to myself as I could immediately see the silver lining here, in a bank of all places, signing papers! Thanks to one of the many peculiar symptoms of Parkinson's, micrographia  (abnormally small handwriting that is difficult to read) meant I was able to fit my signature with no problem into the small box allocated. The clerk doesn't know how lucky she was that I was very tired that day, otherwise she would have been subjected to a quick lecture, my usual performance of educating a total stranger about Parkinson's.