Summer Update (June 2026)
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...