The Parkinson Café provides social, cultural and intellectual interaction for people living with Parkinson’s disease and their care partners. Monthly events, which run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. October thru April, have been planned in upstate New York since 2009 and in Florida since 2012. Founder Lynn B. Schramek obtained a Federal trademark in 2013 and has a model for expanding the program throughout the United States. www.parkinsoncafe.org
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Looking Down the Barrel
Richard (Rick) Secklin is the author of Parkinson’s disease – Looking down the Barrel, and an inspirational speaker. He was once the national gold’s classic bodybuilding champion, a health club owner and a career Texas law enforcement officer.
At 50 years of age, he was completing his lifetime goal successfully graduating Cum Laude from Lubbock Christian University. That same year 2003, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. In his battle of combating the disease, Rick, as a Texas Deputy, made a tough decision in his life to use marijuana for his relief of Parkinson’s symptoms. Four years into his battle; Rick’s eighteen year marriage was dissolved and his son moved away.
Ridden with guilt, confusion, and hate for God, he quit his career as a once community awarded law enforcement officer and he found himself looking down the barrel of a gun contemplating suicide. Rick is a survivor living with Parkinson’s. He tells his story during the radio show today.
John Carlin’s Journey Down the Road to Recovery
This program includes two interviews with John Carlin. The first interview is from March of 2009 when he provides a rich description of the therapies he is using to get wonderful relief from his symptoms. The second up interview from October 22, 2009 includes a fascinating discussion of his bicyle ride across the state of Iowa as he peddle is way across the state for Parkinsons’Â Research.
Listen to this one hour and 20 minute interview to hear John Carlin talk about his participation in Pedaling for Parkinsons and the therapies he has discovered help him get wonderful relief from his symptoms. For more information about the Aquas, visit: http://www.aquas4life.com
I Have Parkinsons But Parkinsons Does Not Have Me
Leif Ogard is author of I Have Parkinsons But Parkinsons Does Not Have Me. Leif was told he would be in a wheel chair in five years after he was first diagnosed. It has not been 21 years since his diagnosis. During that time he started his own business which is thriving. Leif leads a very full and exciting life as you will hear from the interview which is true to the spirit of the title of his book.Â