Posted on April 11, 2011 Updated on April 11, 2011Category: Personal StoriesResource Type: BooksThis book, filled with Michael J. Fox's personal stories, is written in a warm, optimistic and humourous form and makes the case that real learning happens when "life goes skidding sideways."
Posted on March 11, 2009 Updated on April 11, 2011Category: Personal StoriesResource Type: BooksThis book offers a career journalist's personal story about his life before and after the onset of PD while also sharing some PD history, symptomatology and treatment challenges. This personal... Read more
Posted on April 15, 2009 Updated on April 11, 2011Category: Personal StoriesResource Type: BooksThis book chronicles the past decade for actor and PD activist Michael J. Fox, revealing the roles that work, faith and family have played in helping him live with the challenges of PD.
Posted on April 11, 2011 Updated on April 11, 2011Category: Personal StoriesResource Type: BooksThis book shares the journey of Carolyn Anderson and her diagnosis with PD through the eyes of her husband and primary care partner. The author talks openly about the challenges of diagnosing PD,... Read more
Posted on April 11, 2011 Updated on April 11, 2011Category: Personal StoriesResource Type: BooksThis book chronicles one man's personal story of being diagnoses with Parkinson's disease, volunteering for experimental deep brain stimulation surgery, and his experiences post-surgery. The... Read more
Posted on November 05, 2009 Updated on April 11, 2011Category: Personal StoriesResource Type: BooksThis book discusses how DBS is being used to help improve quality of life for many, including those diagnosed with PD.
Posted on April 11, 2011 Updated on April 11, 2011Category: Personal StoriesResource Type: BooksThis book, written by a person newly diagnosed with PD, shares the author's first-year battle with young onset Parkinson's disease. The author hopes to provide an inspirational story for others... Read more
Posted on April 11, 2011 Updated on April 11, 2011Category: Personal StoriesResource Type: BooksThis book, whose author was diagnosed with PD in 1981, offers a rigorous exercise approach that has helped him control the disease and allowed him to lessen his levodopa therapy. He explains the... Read more
Posted on March 11, 2009 Updated on April 11, 2011Category: Personal StoriesResource Type: BooksThis book offers practical advice and a philosophical perspective on caregiving, based on the author's personal experience while caring for her husband, who lived with a Parkinson's Plus... Read more
Posted on April 11, 2011 Updated on April 11, 2011Category: Personal StoriesResource Type: BooksThis book offers information on the social, emotional, and cognitive changes that can take place when living with PD and offers some strategies to cope with these changes. The author also sets... Read more
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