This is Andy, an early retired anaesthetic manager, who is discussing his personal encounter with Parkinson's disease.
He writes his blog about Captain Parkie, based off the 1973 film 'The Exorcist' demon Captain Howdy, exploring the many challenges faced with daily activities and pulls a humorous story from them.
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So I likened it. I was listening to The Exorcist a while ago now. I love The Exorcist, it's one of my favourite films. It's so well made. A big plug there. Even though it's made in 1973, it's an amazing film. And the demon is called Captain Howie. It's the demon that invades So I called my Parkinson's Captain Parkey and likened it to being possessed. So I can demonize it and I can deal with it that way. I can make it like I'm being possessed. And also it's quite comical. And you can lead all these sort of supernatural tales in your blogs. blogs. And it's, I find it quite, I find it quite an astute comparison. So yeah, I mean, I have sent a couple of people, but I don't deliberately, I didn't, I didn't do it. I don't deliberately write them to offend people. I deliberately write them to help and inform people. And, you know, because, because most people, if you, if you, if you say, so if you, if I, before, before I had Parkinson's, if someone would have said to me, name three symptoms of Parkinson's. I would have said falling, balance problems and shaking tremors. And that's pretty much what people say. If you ask them, with no medical knowledge or don't know anyone with Parkinson's, they'll say, they generally say those three things. So I thought if I broaden that, It's just, you know, so like, you know, when you have... Because also, the tablets make you have spasms. So, and these spasms are the most awkward times. And there's nothing you can do about it. So, like, you know, if you... and this truly happened to me. I was trying some eggs, especially under the egg, and I split it back and the egg ended up on the back wall. It's... as annoying as it was, I thought, that's quite funny. So I wrote about it, and it's these little things that you don't see, and like getting up in the morning, my house isn't massive, but it's it's it's it's larger than I had in England, much larger than I had in England actually, and it's getting from my bedroom, our bedroom, to the kitchen, it's like at night you've got two dogs on the floor, you know, you've got tables and things, it's like an obstacle course for someone with Parkinson's, it's like I'm, it's like I'm sort sort of doing walking on doing some sort of army army training camp thing every morning. Your tabs aren't working so you're shuffling along, you've got one big fat Labrador on the floor who won't move, you got one dog who if you step on it will snap at your heels. It's, it's, it's, it's how I read about that.
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