Growing up, Robert Cochrane never noticed that his dad didn’t really love baseball. Robert loved baseball: the history of the game, the announcers’ voices, the…
Ashley AstiJune 1, 2022
Eleven years ago, when Ana María Tamayo’s husband Ray was diagnosed with Parkinson's by one of the top neurologists in Lima, Peru, where they live,…
Ashley AstiMay 11, 2022
Karen Missenden When Karen Missenden’s doctor recommended deep brain stimulation (DBS) three years after her Parkinson’s diagnosis, she told me, “My actual words to him…
Ashley AstiApril 28, 2022
“I was in solitary confinement with a man who was advanced in his Parkinson’s. It was an extremely horrible experience. The man really struggled to…
Ashley AstiApril 5, 2022
Soania Mathur was 27 when everything changed. She was living a full life. She had just started a full-time family medical practice in Ontario, had…
Ashley AstiMarch 5, 2022
Unlikely Beginnings It wasn’t love at first sight. When George and Judy met, he was dating her college roommate. But by the time summer rolled…
Ashley AstiFebruary 24, 2022
We dance in the hallways. He smells like I imagine nighttime Adam might smell and I smell like his hair and the skin…
Ashley AstiFebruary 23, 2022
Passion. For nearly thirty years, Tommy Burke’s life was Hollywood. Born in Boston and raised by Depression-era parents, his family had other plans for him.…
Ashley AstiFebruary 21, 2022
YOPD and Questions of the Heart “Will anyone ever love me again?” Her words caught me and I held still in my chair. My attention…
Ashley AstiFebruary 12, 2022
