Parkinson’s Disease Pt 7

Well hello Friday you have arrived at last, that makes it sound like I have been waiting a long ass time for you to come around but nope not the case just the usual amount of time from one Friday to the next.

Here is a little more about the slowness that comes with Parkinson’s Disease. Slowness can also effect ones speech over time with people often unable to raise their voice, this is because the slowness of movement effects the muscles of the chest and diaphragm as well as those of the larynx which results in speech becoming softer, slower and slurred. I have heard Tim say often that I don’t speak loud enough, I don’t think that is the case as I sound normal to me.

Even though family and friends of a Parkinson’s sufferer may find the slowness o movement irritating and frustrating it is part of the disease and however, much we try we cannot hurry or go faster.

Everyday tasks such as dressing, washing and eating can over time take longer to achieve, our love ones need to remember it is also very frustrating for us suffers as well. We try and do things as fast as possible but sometimes it doesn’t work out that way. We still think as normal no slowness there unless the condition is well advanced or we are effected by side-effects of treatment.

We do not need people to speak slower for us to understand, we understand just fine the problem is getting our bodies to do what our brain says to do.

Next week we will talk about balance.