Developing the attitude necessary to do everything possible
to resist PD is not a process where you wake up one morning and you decide you
have a new attitude. You need to find the attitude that works instinctively for
you. You know, something that comes natural. For me, I’m afraid it was a bad
attitude that was recognized early on. I seem to remember my mother warning me
that as a teen ager I had a bad attitude and I should watch it. (Love you Mom.
Mom just celebrated her 96th birthday.) I distinctly remember one of
my football coaches saying, “You know what I like about you? Your bad attitude.
That chip on your shoulder.” I don’t
know if having a certain attitude is a prerequisite for fighting Parkinson’s or
a good idea for everyone because we are all different and our motivation
triggers may be different. Look for what gets you going or sets you off. Find
that chip on your shoulder. Use it to resist PD.
For me, having a bad attitude is good. Having a short fuse also
helps. Having no patience is one of my faults as a person. With Parkinson’s,
this is a virtue. I take this flaw, this negative, and use it to motivate
action to stop whatever is happening to me because of PD. Now combine that flaw with another flaw of
mine, the need to get even, and you have a winner, and a real bad attitude. Now
focus that, magnify it. Get obsessed with it. And aim it at what makes you
miserable: you got it! PD. (Try not to aim anywhere else with this attitude. It
might be dangerous!) I have seen psychological profiles of people with PD and that
use terms like irritable, ill tempered, and crabby. (You gotta problem with
that?)
There you have me in a capsule. An impatient, revengeful, and
sometimes crabby old man with a bad attitude. The perfect profile to resist
Parkinson’s.
Next, I will show you how to make your bad attitude work for
you, just as I found that it works for me. More proof that symptoms can be
beaten back through hard work and bad attitude. See recent photo of fully
recovered muscle that was previously withered to less than half its current
condition.
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6 comments:
Well, not bad for an old guy, haha John, just joking. Don’t forget I knew you when you were really hunky. 🤣 Don’t you love it when people say.......you look good.......for your age!!!!!! Ha, we probably look better than half the people I saw on the beach the other day., half our ages🙃🙃🙃and I am not joking.
And I am sure they didn’t have PD.
I am confused with this set up. Can’t back to your blog. Uhhhh
Reply to Vintage Lady. I don't have an answer to how to get back to the blog from comments. I'm still trying to make all this work smoothly. If I find an answer, I will let you know. Thanks for commenting. It's one way to gauge the interest of the blog readers. We have over 900 page views but all seem to originate from Facebook. Onward!
Hi Linda,
City Hall seems like yesterday! Thanks for your reply and reminiscing. Still love the RI beaches.
Your blog is going to motivate a lot of people to exercise and do more activities! I enjoyed reading it. - Linda
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