Early Onset Rigor Mortis

I've been going through some old videos and audio tapes of my Dad recently. He died from Parkinson's complications about 6 years ago now. He was diagnosed when he was in his early 40's and died when he was in his mid 60's. My grandfather was diagnosed with Parkinson's in his late 80's and died in his early 90's. My grandmom may have had it as well altough her official diagnosis was MSA. So when I was diagnosed at 28, it wasn't much of a shock. I've heard that Parkinson's isn't officially hereditary but I call bullshit on that.

I'm not necessarily endorsing any of these drugs, but in case you want to see what I'm taking right now you can see it here or below:

Before PD I was born and raised in Baltimore, MD in 1982. I After PD I was 31 and most of my friends were having kids and I knew I wasn't on that track anymore. So I looked for something new to change things up. That turned out to be a new job in Roswell, GA.

No, this is not a post about your ears shaking involuntarily. I just wanted to quickly share a Parkinson's podcast that I have found to be more helpful and thought provoking that any therapy, support group, or even the majority of appointments woth my doctors/neurologist. You can find all of the episodes online here or just add this RSS feed into your pocatcher of choice. I love that these talk about all of the things that even your neurologist wants to avoid discussing. Things like aging with Parkinson's, living alone with Parkinson's, mortality rates and Parkinson's, shame. depression and demoralization with Parkinson's, cannabis' effect on Parkinson's, etc. All of the really important things that need to be adressed more than just going to your appointments and discussing which medications can help my hand from shaking or my feet from clawing up.

In general I try to eat "healthy". Recently this looks like a bottled V8 greens smoothie/juice for breakfast. This gives me 2.5 servings of fruits/veggies without any extra sugar or anything. Then I might have a snack around lunch time like a small bag of trail mix or a granola bar. My first and only real meal is an early dinner around 5 which usually starts with a salad. I eat so little mainly because food tends to block the absorption of my meds, especiallly foods high in protein. I have had PD for long enough to make some correlations like that. This leaves my body at a huge caloric deficit at night, which often leads me to abandon all of my discipline at night and crush sweets. There must be a Dopamine rush that goes along with this too, because I will seriously put away an embarassing amount of cookies, ice cream, candy, pie, etc. I want to change this cycle though. I tried to add more protein to my diet earlier in the day whether it's some oatmeal or a protein ...