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Going Public (April 2024)

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 I'm not sure why, but I've been reluctant to out myself as a PWP online. However since 11th April was World Parkinson's Day and I was back in Boario for my third visit, it just seemed like the right time. This is what I posted on Blipfoto (which I shared on Twitter/X and on Facebook) and on Instagram.  Some of you may have spotted that I keep pitching up in a rather picturesque wee Italian spa town in the Val Camonica in Lombardy, and I’ve been a bit vague about why. And since today is World Parkinson’s Day, it seems like the right time to say more. In April 2022 I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, and shortly afterwards (via a friend of a friend) I was told about the European Parkinson Therapy Centre in Boario Terme. My first visit to the Centre (locally called the REGEN Centre) was in April 2023, then again in Autumn 2023 and I’m now back again for some more individual neurotherapy, or pampering as I prefer to describe it. Parkinson’s Disease is the fastest growing...