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M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - When A Baby Smiles
M.A.S.H. :: Jon Pryce - Swedish Meatballs
M.A.S.H. :: Sheryl - Muhammad Ali and Me
M.A.S.H. :: Jon Pryce - A Good Walk Spoilt?
M.A.S.H. :: Jo - Last one out, First one back
M.A.S.H. :: Jacqui - Don't Bottle It Up
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Help!....
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Confronting the Valley of Reality
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - "Peanuts" and Parkinson's disease
M.A.S.H. :: Jon Pryce - On the Piste.....Part 2
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Parkinson's Disease and Freedom
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Tripod Charlie
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - The Apostophe in Parkinson's Disease
M.A.S.H. :: Sandye - Now I Have an Excuse
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - "I Do" - A Daily Commitment
M.A.S.H. :: Jon Pryce - On the Piste…beware of ski lifts.
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Unplanned Events on the Journey
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Living with Parkinson's in the Wonder of Twilight
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Talk About Listening
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - The End of an Adventure
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Volcanoes and Parkinson’s
M.A.S.H. :: Jon Pryce - Retirement and All That
M.A.S.H. :: Felicity - Bluddy Parkinson's
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Presenting the Dichotomy of PD
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Stretch, Change and Transform
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Lessons Learned from Parkinson's
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Curling and Parkinson's Disease
M.A.S.H. :: Why WobblyWilliams.com is Innovative!!!
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Parkinson’s and the Art of Getting Better
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - A - Z for People with Parkinson's
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Apathy to Optimism - My Parkinson's Pendulum
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Hyperbaric Hope for Parkinson's?
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Ever Consider Acupuncture?
M.A.S.H. :: Life With Shaky - Resolutions of a PD wife
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Prevailing Over Parkinson's
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - The Right Arm Swinging - Saga of Stiffness
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Snowed Under?
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Dare the Dragon of Depression
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Parkinson's in Paradise
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Parkinson's Under the Sea
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Winston, War and Parkinson's
M.A.S.H. :: PD & Me - PDS Out of Touch
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Remembrance - War of Attrition
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Leaving a $300 Legacy?
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Parkinson's, Helicopters and Dirt-Biking
M.A.S.H. :: Running Team Recruitment
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - Parkinson's, Wine and Old Friends
Bob Kuhn - Hay, Smell The Roses
London to Paris dans le bike.
Hiker's Lament
Wobbly Williams Wednesday - 25 March 2008
Coming Soon - Voluptuous Vicki
Vicki's Diary - Part Twelve
New M.A.S.H - Vicki's Diary Part Eleven
Vicki's Diary - Part Ten
My Wee Brother
Vicki's 2008
Good Vibrations (Part Two) by Cliff Williams
Good Vibrations (Part One) by Cliff Williams
Vicki's Diary - Part Nine
World Parkinson's Congress 2010
The First Wobbly Williams Rock Night
Vicki's Diary - Part Eight
Noelies Wobbly Belly Loss
Vicki's Diary - Part Seven
The First Wobby Williams Music Festival
Tablets by Nigel
Vicki's Diary - Part Six
Hugh's Letter
Vicki's Diary - Part Five
Vicki's Diary Part Four
Making Strides - Tom Isaacs
Vicki's Diary - Part Three
Vicki's Diary - Part Two
Vicki's Diary - Part One
Wobbly Williams by Vic Woolley
A Parkinson's Analogy by 'Passeggiata'

 

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Memoirs, Articles, Stories and Heroes.

This section of the website contains pieces written by people with Parkinson's, their partners or their friends.  The pieces maybe related to Parkinson's or they might not.  If you want to contribute a memoir, an article, a story, a poem, a photo or propose a hero then email me.
  
M.A.S.H. :: Bob Kuhn - When A Baby Smiles

Despite the anguish, the baby slipped silently into the world.

No announcement. No fanfare. No cheering. Suddenly aware of the light exposing its naked vulnerability, the baby shivered. It was not from the cold or from fear, although the newborn child would have gladly reentered the quiet warmth and safety of the womb, were that possible. The constant, uncontrollable shuddering was part of its personality, buried deep in its DNA. But despite its unfamiliar surroundings and uncertain future, the baby smiled. It felt good to smile, to know that despite the circumstances leading up to its birth it could smile. It chose to smile. And as others noticed that smile, they smiled too. And that made the baby smile all the more.

Such was the birth of this blog one year ago. It was a baby born in some dopamine-deprived moment. Like any other child, there have been moments of laughter, embarrassment and pain. Perhaps because of that, others have provided companionship, reassurance and comfort along the way. Most of all, the baby, and its author, have both kept their smile.

The first person I met with Parkinson's disease reached out her shaky hand and made an astonishing introductory statement. "It is great that you can still smile", she said. To a newly diagnosed person with Parkinson's, that statement sent me reeling. I knew about Parkinson's mask, but somehow could not imagine losing my smile and all the expressiveness that went with it. At that moment I knew that my job was to maintain the smile as best I could under any circumstances, and in doing so promote a positive attitude to living with Parkinson's disease.

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