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My Parkinson's

My Parkinson's is where our ordinary members can publish their own personal stories relating to their own experiences with Parkinson's and how it affects their lives.

New "Special Interest Group on Parkinson's & Technology" (SIGP@T) created
Werner Remmele
Friday, August 21, 2020

Werner, DRIG's former secretary and founding member, is still working very hard for PwPs and has set up this new group for those with an interest and a special skill in technologies which can help PwPs, read more about it below and on our News page.  This will also be the subject of this year's planned DRIG autumn "virtual conference" event.

'You should take your medicine now.'

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Fife Local Group has a Lockdown Poet
Mark Coxe
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Mark has been doing a fantastic job of taking a poetical view of the challenges posed by the Covid Lockdown and sharing these on their WhatsApp Group.  Now he has turned his attentions to the DRIG, thank you Mark!

 

What DRIG stands for

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Janet Kerr
THE BRIEF, THE BIKE AND ME!
Janet Kerr
Tuesday, July 7, 2020

RaidLocal was the new name of the cycling challenge set by The Cure Parkinson’s Trust.

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Impressions from my first “DRIG Workshop” – Exercise and Parkinson’s, Dundee, 8th Feb 2020
Brendan Hawdon, St Andrews & Brussels
Friday, May 22, 2020

I am a 59-year old Irishman married to a wonderful person, Joanna. I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s about three years ago in Belgium, and intend to retire this autumn, a bit earlier than anticipated, to Fife, where we  already have a house and two of our three children go to school.

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My first impressions of a DRIG steering committee meeting
Joanna Goodburn
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Last week I met a fascinating group of committed individuals working together to address their future relationship with Parkinson’s Disease (PD): powerful people with Parkinson’s (PwP) raising money, organizing really relevant information meetings for PwP; loving partners of people with Parkinson’s learning more about how to support them; and talented scientists breaking down the barriers to understanding how this disease works.  

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