I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving Day yesterday. We loved seeing everyone and ours was delicious and oh, so easy. Restaurant reservations at 2:00 and home in bed by 8:30. Thanksgiving often ends with a long drive home around midnight. It feels so good not be exhausted this morning. The plan today? Rehab, butcher and Trader Joe's.
My friend Barbara sent a book for me to read that I just finished. It was “Lucky Man” by Michael J. Fox. It was about his life and his diagnosis and living with Parkinson’s disease. It was shockingly honestly. Brutally honest. He wrote a lot about his struggle with alcohol, living in the bubble world of the famous, his continued love for his wife and children and his relationship with his parents and siblings.
What I found so interesting was that he refused to see another neurologist after his diagnosis. Ignored the disease until it could not be ignored. He spent many, many years hiding the symptoms from everyone, including his wife and son.
In the end, he concluded that the 10 years since the Parkinson’s diagnosis have been the best of his life. He was forced to live an honest life with all feelings and frailties exposed and became stronger because of it. He called it a gift that keeps on taking!
It is good read. Worth it.
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