Dad, Lew, and I were sitting at the card table yesterday putting together our third jigsaw puzzle. It is a great activity for Dad. He gets socialization, he ...

I wish I could say, “Beam me up Scotty,” and be rid of this coronavirus laden planet! I’m tired of it. I’m sure you are tired of it too. As I re-read my last...

I woke up today and thought, “I have nothing to do today.” It has been 12 days since our family has been “social distancing”. A little longer than some perha...

I don’t know about you, but this COVID 19 coronavirus has me concerned. My 85-year-old father with PD and a long history of coronary artery disease, includin...

What a way to start, right? But I might as well lay it out there. Contrary to popular opinion, yes, I get annoyed. (Ok, my husband just bust a gut on the “co...

The relatives have all gone home, the tree is down, the wreaths are off the front door and windows and we’ve mostly survived the crazy, wonderful, exhausting...

My husband and I were wrapping Christmas gifts last night. I’m not sure we had the whole holiday spirit concept in proper focus as we moaned and groaned abou...

All of us who are caregivers have been out in public, at the grocery store, in a restaurant, at boxing, when our loved one with Parkinson’s (“LOWP”) has decl...

In the October/November 2019 issue of AARP The Magazine, the AARP National Volunteer President, Catherine Alicia Georges, has an article titled, Family Careg...

Dad and I attended our usual PD support group this past Thursday. There was a guest speaker, a physical therapist who works with PD patients, who had come to...

It dawned on me the other day that, as a caregiver, I needed an attitude adjustment. I can’t change this abominable disease. I can’t change the fact my Dad h...

Before I was a caregiver for my Dad, I was a caregiver for my Mom. She had idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis with hypersensitivity pneumonitis and died August 17...

The Parkinson's Foundation provides a wonderful library of resources to help us all live better with Parkinson's Disease, including this one for care partner...

As a caregiver, do you ever feel like you have “caught” PD? The other day I was carrying dishes and I was convinced my hand was shaking. It might have been b...

Well…I am woefully late with this article! So, we will call this June/July’s thoughts. I typically sit down to write with something specific on my mind. But ...

Once again, hello. I was trying to decide what to focus on this month. I realized I have a lot of articles, books, YouTube videos, pamphlets, etc. I tend to ...

Hi once again, remember me? Annette, daughter and live-in caregiver to my father, Lloyd, a Parkinson’s fighter since June of 2018. It has been a month, so I ...

I am a daughter and caregiver to my father, a Parkinson’s fighter. He is 84 and doing remarkably well. Dad came to live with me and my husband last August. W...