Ordinary Life – Kitty & Mike

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Kitty catches up with Mike Doyle, who survived a Sudden Cardiac Arrest and over 30 minutes of CPR that saved his life. Find out how it affected his mindset towards life, his future plans and the relationships with those around him. Kitty and Mike – Catch Up | RSS.com

Relentlessly On

Anyone that knows me even a little will know I have a strong dislike of exercise. It’s unpleasant, uncomfortable and difficult. You have to endure horrible things like cold weather, wet weather, or gyms full of awful music, worse television screened from every wall and over-enthusiastic thin bendy people. Then there’s the actual exercise itself. … Read more

My Version of Acceptance

A boy in a climbing harness watches Kitty Fitton climb up to a platform that is in the trees. behind them is a forest with a rope course.

I recently wrote about my neurology appointment and how I’d felt pressured into taking anti depressants. The subsequent attention was somewhat humbling. I also felt guilty in a way, as if I’d been shouting for attention. I hadn’t, but I 4 8 that it perhaps did come across as a little darker than my usual … Read more

Parkinson’s Causes Depression

I was at the hospital yesterday for a routine check up. You know the kind of thing. It was one of my supposed six-monthly checks, so naturally had taken eleven months to happen. The doctor was very nice and asked me all the usual questions. I walked up and down the corridor, watched carefully by … Read more

Friends Forever

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I have been ruminating on much. I often do. Then I think,  “I’ll write that for the blog!” yet I don’t. Writing for a blog is great. It’s cathartic and all that. Yet it too can become a chore. Well, it can when you think that you have to write about a specific subject. In … Read more

Resistance is Futile

I like early mornings. Which is lucky, because I get a lot of them, being woken up with an aching leg. That I’m not so keen on. I also like late nights, I’ve always been a night owl,  but a steady mix of work, early mornings and child-care is slowly putting paid to the later … Read more

Just Another Awareness Day

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It’s almost World Parkinson’s Day. It’s something big on my calendar yet I’m sure to most people it’s ‘just another awareness day.’ In the six years I have had this disease I have seen the Covid-19 pandemic sweep the world and an effective vaccination program created and rolled out worldwide.  Yet the drugs I am … Read more