Parkinson's Disease
I recently watched a YouTube video called “Dad Living With Parkinson’s,” provided by Attitude. This video was a glimpse into Andy McDowell’s life as he lives with early onset Parkinson’s Disease. Throughout the video, it shows a glimpse from different peoples’ perspectives on his life, as well as his own. There is a special part of this video when Andy discusses how he told his two daughters about his condition. After his two daughters were still struggling to understand, he wrote a poem called “Smaller,” and later made an award winning video. Throughout this video, I learned to better understand what a person with Parkinson’s is going through mentally before and after a diagnoses. As a person without Parkinson’s, you realize how frustrating it can be to not be able to fully control your body movements or how your brain processes things. I thought about how alone he must have felt when trying to make decis...