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Summer Update (June 2026)

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Well, let's start with being positive - time spent in Italy and on Shetland does generally seem to be suiting me well.   Patient Puffins Waiting In Line Since the last post on this blog, I've spent a few weeks in Italy (mostly at REGEN in Boario), a wee bit of time in Oxford, six weeks on Shetland and a week pottering around in the mountains in Scotland.  All in all a pretty low stress (mostly outdoors) sort of life-style.    Physically I feel pretty good, mentally (I'd rate things as) OK mostly if a wee bit fragile at times (just don't ask me to multi-task). And I was starting to think about what I was going to report to my neurologist at our 'annual' appointment, and what needed to be followed up from past appointments.   The plan, as explained to me when I was first diagnosed, was that I would have an annual meeting with 'my' neurologist and an annual meeting with a Parkinson's nurse - with the meetings six months apart so I was seeing a specialis...