Sitting in a café with a fellow Parkinson’s sufferer, the scene must have appeared somewhat comic to onlookers, who probably didn’t understand why the two of us could not sit still, as we continuously wriggled and moved in our seats. My daughter put an alarm on my mobile phone reminding me to take my pills, and whilst chatting with this lady, the alarm started to chime. I excused myself whilst turning the alarm off and took my 11:30 a.m. pill. A few seconds later, the lady’s alarm also began to ring on her mobile phone, for the very same reason. We had to laugh at the irony of two women meeting for the first time, and finding that we share much in common due to Parkinson’s, including medications and even down to the time of day they should be taken, which have been helpfully programmed by family into our mobile phone’s alarm. So I now have an 11:30 a.m. buddy!
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