Shaken & Stirred
Day 1 of the new liquid Kinson regime. Promising.. To be continued.
Ignorance or the mind at rest can be bliss and then some
It’s true. Sometimes for a split second, I forget it too. Perhaps I should try to re-connect with Heather in the New Year following our near-miss meeting in San Francisco last year when I was in Silicon Valley for a telco conference and Heather was battling pre-speaking tour […]
A glass half-full of circles
“There are those who feel the glass is half full, there are others who feel the glass is half empty. And there are also people who are engineers who feel the glass is not fit for purpose and the fool in charge of ordering it deserves to […]
Madopar, this is where we part ways
Well, as I told my specialist only a few weeks ago, my previous experiences with this popular PD medication which multitudes of People with Parkinson’s respond well to by all accounts, have been ‘Dante-esk’ to put it mildly. ‘A classical reference for me to start the week off […]
A tale of a few cities
Just now, carefully going about my business, I picked up on quite a bit of tension in the atmosphere .. that nervous pre-public holiday kind of mild panic. I just counted my blessings that at least, small mercies indeed, I didn’t have to drag Mr Madopar into a […]
Honi Soit and all that jazz
Amazingly, Jessa’s been banned from yet another platform. That’s a frighting development which I want to spend some time on soon. It’s so unhealthy that the people who can’t or won’t make a distinction between the nude form and any sexual connotations – either sound or lurid – […]
Having myself a merry little grab for Lebensraum
Just preparing the cave for a summer hibernation. Pls don’t be offended if I am incommunicado. Will need to make a lot of changes, e.g. might kill off the site as it’s going nowhere fast and I don’t have time to take my time. A project such as […]
Smugness is as smugness does
Travelling around Europe about six years ago as a devastatingly awkward 18 or 19yr old, I enjoyed people everywhere saying, “Ah! Holland. Cruyff!” Over the years this turned into, “Ah, Holland. Van Basten, Gullit!” Somehow it never became, “Ah, Holland. Van de Kerkhof!” For me, the Boy from […]
Life’s ambition(s)
To be a monk swimming? I love that clip. How quintessentially Irish. And yes, this is a prime example of how to start with a joke, if you must. How beautiful, how sad, how gorgeous, mystical, etc … Yep, hit the bullseye for me (struck me heavily in […]
On the good ship Mateship
This is the kind of Australia I love.. Just now, after another smoke-filled day – it’s been worst on Tuesdays here for the past few weeks, although it’s important to note that it’s just smoke we’re finding annoying and unhealthy, which it is, but at least it’s not […]
Uri Geller, eat your heart out
It was a simpler time, the seventies .. For most of the decade, mainstream Saturday evening TV seemed to be dominated by the supposedly spectacular exploits of Mr Uri Geller. He did the rounds of all the major talk shows, and while he had a certain charm – […]
Codger
I must be turning into an old so and so. Last Sunday morning i was up with the kind of lovely people you tend to meet in a lovely place such as this. The couples walking their dogs, the girls walking their iPhones, the early coffee fanatics savouring […]
That Bridge too far
I know there are very disturbing headlines one could focus on right now, in places very near and dear to me. And mind you, just now I thought of having a look at the doom and gloom on Sky News, and of course there was nothing on apart […]
Rest in peace, the Kogarah Kid
In the end, he never made it back to his beloved Sydney. Clive James, passed away at the age of 80 after a huge battle with cancer. So sad .. Some people just get under your skin and into your heart. He was I suppose part of that […]
Trial & (T)error
The Chatswood Boxing for PD is a really good programme, I had a few sessions a while ago, which unfortunately I was unable to continue with due to other considerations at the time. But for anyone with PD or caring for someone with PD in Sydney I would […]
KOPD Open day Saturday 30 November
This is a great programme, can recommend giving it a go. After 2 weeks you’ll be as good as this late PD champion or else you you can try another 2 weeks .. Boxers are cordially invited to an open day session on Saturday the 30th 1.30-2.30pm at Vt1 […]
Here comes the sun
Incredible, how a person in strife can be buoyed just by being allowed to slow down, catch one’s breath and find not just understanding and sympathy but hey presto, actually a keen professional insight, a most sensitive appraisal of what said person needs (has been in need of […]
That wistful longing
Let’s be careful out there ..
Useful app
Knocked for six, yet all to play for
Three years into my YOPD stint I finally have gained a bit more of an understanding of that whole diminishing returns principle, in terms of the need to try and devise a regime whereby one can function relatively adequately on the lowest possible dose of the old L-Dopa. […]
Having fun working out in the real world
Like the enthusiasm and community building but I did listen closely to how she phrased the potential benefits, something that the Simon Lewis chat with Bas Bloem so helpfully clarified. Nothing, including exercise, can do anything in terms of the disease itself. But, as there are so […]
Simon Lewis talks to Bas Bloem
Check out our new PD resource, a whole page just for Prof Simon Lewis. Have a look at his interview with Dutch PD expert, Bas Bloem, about the benefits of exercise here Personally, I was excited to learn about a PD Boxing group here on the Coast during […]
Um sonst / Harold Holt, wait for me!
As I am ‘enjoying’ day 2 without the means to purchase even a sausage roll, I just left my GP, whom I had rated highly, even more depressed than when I went in, which is saying something. Decided to just thank her for her time halfway through and […]
Nice day for a walk home .. from Gosford, Kinson don’t fail me now!
Had quite a good day yesterday in terms of getting my point across and starting to see some real progress where my treatment is concerned – I will try to update the Diary of an Anti-Patient to provide a bit more detail. But then the quality of medical […]
G.K. Chesterton sponsored fun facts no.1
Did you know that in actual fact, it’s not at all mandatory for nations outside the North American continent to adopt US festive traditions? I know right, I too assumed it must have become compulsory at some stage during the past few years to get with it and […]
What safer place than this, my safe-haven ‘where everybody knows your name’
Brekkie at the Club, such a lovely way to start the weekend. It’s always so nice to know I will be welcomed by the manager, my friend Omar from Lahore, no matter what ..
Rogue Gents Brigade
How I wish I could zigzag along .. something tells me Nick and I would get on like a medical specialist and his favourite accountant. Also both being confirmed bachelors of course .. Seems like a great initiative though, especially for those blokes who can’t see the gumtrees, […]
Spanner in the works
Not a bad result after a decidedly underwhelming start to the day. Following an exhausting attempt at communication with, luckily just 50% of the mental health tag team visiting me this morning, I actually ended up a few hours later speaking to someone pleasant at CL Gosford and […]
Can you guess where I’ll be heading today?
Yep, no prizes for guessing right though, because by now what loyal readers ROZ still has have become used ad nauseam to seeing these descriptions of endless trips to Gosford Centrelink. Today, I shall be notifying them that the breakdown of my Newstart payments such as I have […]
No more travel for you!
It’s quite amazing what kind of curve balls one is sometimes expected to be able to return unexpectedly, and seemingly at random in this funny game called survival. But counting your blessings and appreciating whenever a hand is in fact reaching out to help you genuinely is perhaps a […]
Comedy capers
PREPARING MYSELF FOR ANOTHER ‘PRODUCTIVE’ DAY .. Another day, another Centrelink notification ‘Your Newstart payments have been suspended because you are overseas’ You can’t write this kind of stuff.. well perhaps if you could channel the amalgamated creative wellspring of Nick Cave, the Marquis de Sade and the […]
What’s in a name? Playing for keeps
Just recently, on my way back from an event in San Jose, which included the option of experiencing a PD tremor San Andreas fault style, I skipped through the movies on the plane, the endless Big Bang Theory box sets, by the way not a patch on and […]
Home Stretch
Would I like the game of golf? I have no idea. Churchill, who knew how to weave some word magic, once said about golf, “It’s by far the best way to ruin a perfectly good walk.” On my way back from Gosford CentreLink – obliged to ride the […]
On the road again
I used to quite like those affable guys, the punks. I found that more often than not, for all their posturing and mock-aggression, the signed up members of this desperate attempt at forging a credible post-hippy subculture proved to be quite lovely and sensitive .. it was a […]
About six on the Richard scale or going with the flow – there is a difference
Following a successful conference in Silicon Valley and some ultra-vexatious logistical hurdles while relocating to San Francisco, this morning I checked into a hotel in the Bay Area – mentally already able to sense the cool sheets that would soon be enveloping my aching bones. After two previous […]
Remembering the way to San Jose
Good to back in Silicon Valley again taking in a dose of fresh laid-back sunshine along with updates on the latest developments in cyber security, artificial intelligence and cloud computing.
This is Australia
I know who I’d like to have by my side when the Pommes Gratin are down. Also love the hotel’s (read: pub’s) name. Sounds like the drinking hole’s shingle ought to have my mug on it. I’d be proud to… Reminds me of one of the first things […]
Discover your mould, mould it to your liking or smash it Hoppa-style and reassemble at leisure
One of the reasons I’ve been finding things so tough, even on top of the YOPD, is that I don’t really fit the mould. Never have, not any mould… After another long but ultimately good day I found myself prostrate on the Queensize at around 2am, having somehow […]
The truth lies somewhere in the middle?
Being au fait with the inner workings of news media, I tend to enjoy the reactions of others as they have their buttons are pressed without even realising it. It’s actually fun being able to see this crafty process from both angles, as if my eyes can straddle […]
No-brainer
Choice on the telly right now: some AFL meat heads bumping into each other in Brisbane or The Richard of Oz … Hey, that reminds me of that website The Wizard of Oz, youse should have a squiz (slang alert). Easy choice for those of us bursting with masculine […]
Fear and self-loathing – a pitfall of one’s own making
A few weeks ago on a bright early Sunday morning after having Ubered two girls back to their respective homes following what most likely had been ‘a big night’, I noticed I was quite close to Bouddi National Park. Climbing the gorgeous steep hills in the trusted Holden […]
School of hard knocks – can I go home now, please?
Just got back from Officeworks where I scanned some recent specialists’ reports to send on to Parkinson’s NSW in preparation of yet another claim for NDIS support, only to learn via SMS that once again, my precious Newstart payments have been suspended. This, farcically, is because I’ve been […]
Battlestar Parkinsonia
Hanging in there, Strappado-style … that seems to be my mantra at the present time. It’s so interesting – albeit in a thoroughly ‘you shouldn’t have’ soul-destroying way – to detect just to what extent the mind can influence so much of our general well-being. While I’ve always […]
The Age of Ignoramus
Tomorrow should be an interesting day. I’ll be rocking up (read turning up) at the agency here on the Coast in charge of helping me find part-time work. This, if you remember, is a requirement for me to be able to receive the token support of $516 per […]
La Vie en Rose
Just now, on a bright sunny Monday on the cusp of Spring – and feeling hopelessly prone to the new unwelcome, overbearing lodger D. E. Pression (he just turned up one day and I can’t seem to shake him) – I thought to myself, ‘Could stay at home […]
Tempus fugit
Why I will never, ever stop loving women full stop
Whenever I start on this most familiar trait of my mental make-up, I can see the assorted eyebrows of – even some very near and dear – gals within my inner circle preparing for lift-off. And, while my chequered recent past would certainly merit such apprehension, I assure […]
Luctor & Emergo all over again
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