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Tell us about your blog.

This is Andy, an early retired anaesthetic manager, who is discussing his personal encounter with Parkinson's disease. He discusses how he started his blog, detailing the many adventures of Captain Parkie based off his real life experiences.

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Tell us about your blog. Yeah, it started off, I was bored one day, so I started off and I thought I'll write this and then I joined the site and I thought well I've only just joined it, they'll throw me off but I'll have fun with it. But they took to it. I got almost like a following. And so I wrote another one, I was thinking about beginner's luck. So I wrote another one and then I thought, they're as stupid as I am. And then, on writing them and it's just it was like uh the the first one i wrote was about getting into bed i thought you know there must be there must be some sort of humor in this so i wrote one like trying to get into bed how you have to have the position your quilt properly so you don't land on it god forbid if you land on your quilt you're stuffed because you won't get off it again so i started writing things like that and um and these people say all these people get writing back to me saying yeah yeah that's that's really funny but yeah we never looked at it like that before and then um you know a couple of doctors picked up picked up on it and then you know that they said one woman printed printed them all out and shoved them in a surgery so people could read in their surgery and so on and so forth and they say you got you got you got you got a bit of a following but i'm now sort of sticking them in a book and so that that will be the next thing I know it gives me something to do. I was walking in the garden the other day, I was walking in the garden, and it suddenly occurred to me that I couldn't aim the house properly. And so I found this quite funny. So I started to, I started to raise a bell, and then it's as things occur, new things occur, I write about them. But in a sort of a, It sounds, if someone didn't know I had Parkinson's, they'd think I was really out of order. But I feel I can write like that because I have got Parkinson's. So, you know, I can pretty much do what I want with it. So, yeah. I wrote one on sex. Because there's no longer, you can't have the spontaneity anymore. It has to be planned. So I wrote one about that. But it wasn't rude. If anything, it was like a carry-on film kind of humour. But it's that sort of thing. There's no spontaneity. Everything I do now, from the dishes to going to bed, anything has to be planned.

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