living my parkinson's disease

# Living my Parkinson's disease When S.A. was diagnosed with Parkinson's, he promised himself he wouldn't become a burden. Thirteen years later, he realized he'd kept that promise by disappearing entirely—from his children, his voice, his own life. These dispatches from the front lines of a failing body are unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply human. They explore what happens when a disease doesn't just steal your mobility, but systematically dismantles your ability to speak, to connect, to be understood. A masked face. A voice that won't cooperate. Legs that move at their own pace. A mind that's still sharp, trapped in a body that's slowly betraying it. But this is also a story about partnership, resilience, and the quiet act of choosing to show up—even imperfectly. About a wife who delegates with precision. Children who wait for their father to finish speaking. And the hard truth that asking for help isn't weakness. It's just being alive. For anyone who has watched a loved one fade, or felt their own self slipping away, S.A. offers something rare: the unvarnished truth about living with loss, spoken with surprising grace.