Fuck Parkinson's Disease

I wanted to rant and rave. I wanted to yell and scream and punch Parkinson's in the face. I think it should just pack up and leave and never come back or show its ugly face around here ever again. No one wants you Parkinson's. You wreak havoc in our lives and make us all miserable. You turn the best of us into harrowed souls and diminish our strongest hearts and sharpest brains into dependent, vulnerable, shadows of their former selves.

You make us cringe and gasp and choke and fall and stress and raise our anxiety levels so high and think about what could have been instead.  You make us avert and deny and forget and fall into habits we can not break nor do we want to separate from for fear of losing any semblance of control we once had in our life before we realized the deterioration of ourselves.

We fight you everyday Parkinson's and you sometimes seem to have the upper hand but we continue to fight. Fuck you Parkinson's for thinking you can win. Fuck you Parkinson's for all of your nasty treatment of our inner beings who only long for ourselves to be normal and our loved ones to feel whole and of themself. You take the tallest and most brave of us all and test us all everday with your slow and steady pinching grasp. Fuck you Parkinson's for your cowardly approach.

Fuck you Parkinson's for taking over the lives of those who were independent and strong and creative and quick-witted and who I most wanted to be like. Fuck you for taking that away from him and fuck you for taking that away from me!