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| Nickname: | ParkyPundit |
| User Activity: | 70 pts total (0 pts in May) |
| Firstname: | Bill |
| Lastname: | Schmalfeldt |
| Date of Birth: | 01/04/1955 |
| Country: | United states |
| Gender: | Male |
| Language: | English |
| Occupation: | Media, the Arts and Printing |
| About: | It was just about three weeks after my 45th birthday in 2000 when I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. In 2007 while working at a federal agency as a writer and podcaster, telling other people about the importance of clinical trials, I heard about and volunteered for an experimental brain surgery to determine whether or not “deep brain stimulation” could be done on patients in the earlier stages of the disease. The purpose of the clinical trial is to prove that DBS, when done earlier in the progression of the disease, might just slow down or stop the degeneration that is an inevitable part of the disease. I've written a book on the subject. “Put On Your Parky Face!” is the story of my “Parkinson’s Decade” from being diagnosed in 2000, to having the surgery in 2007, through today. The story is told in a humorous, satirical, almost jovial first-person, conversational style. It’s a book that should be on the reading list of anyone who has (or loves someone who has) Parkinson’s disease. |
