No Doorway Wide Enough

In February 2007, I began a daily blog to chronicle my life as a person with Parkinson’s disease. I had been diagnosed in 2000, but for the first seven years of this affliction, I just sort of paid lip service to the whole thing. In early PD, the symptoms are hardly disabling, so it was possible to go days – sometimes weeks – without having to think about it.
That all changed in late 2006 and early 2007 when my symptoms began to progress at a more rapid rate. It was in February when I finall...