Travelling with PD
Well here I go again,setting forth on a perilous journey using the uk rail network,perilous why,well were back to the beast .The hidden illness PD.Concerns flood my brain ,what if I need the loo shake rattle roll ,for sure I need no further assistance in that respect anyway ive got to get there without falling over or landing in some ones lap.Secret weapon one tenna lady,thats not a promotion its a strategy.
Worst of all I have four trains to catch,Im having a mental wobl at the thought.First organise luggage 2 bags one on wheels a third is to much like mission impossible before I get out of he door so dont attempt that one
So were off, complicated isn’t it and I havn’t even go to the the station yet.
I arrive eventually at my local station a quiet 12 mile journey on country roads.Deposit car for collection later,so far so good 180 miles to go.
The station is like the marie celeste were is everyone only 2 platforms,I see they Have relocated the confectionery machine to the opposite platform, over steps and a bridge.I ponder wether station staff have relocated it because there on diets or to save them having to top it up.More likley done without thought whatever doesn’t encourage sales, bugger there’s my chocolate rescue bar gone.Ticket officer appears watering can in hand,Ive iterrupted her routine looks at me like ive murdered her plants.
Ticket safe in bag ,only 2 platforms easy this ,tannoy announces train arrival,of the train that left 5 minutes ago,confusing slip of the finger I expect,blame the watering can and automatic messaging,not my fuzzy brain or PD.
Braaks Gut Theory
Current theorys see Parkinson’s as degeneration of the substantia nigra .The hypothesis Braak and colleagues research pathology would indicate that it advances from the peripheral nervous system to the brain stem in a staging system first described by Braak in 2003
The focus on the substantia nigra faces challenge, most PD patients have additional, non-motor symptoms, and PD is coming to be understood as a much broader disease.
Chronic constipation, loss of smell, and REM sleep disorders often occur before the motor symptoms
One of the attractive features of Braak’s staging scheme is that the areas of the nervous system littered with Lewy bodies at the earliest stages of disease could account for these non-motor symptoms.
The staging system, draws attention to the damage in other transmitter systems—in other words, apart from and before the nigrostriatal system. In addition, it can serve as a framework for relating the pathology in other parts of the nervous system (gastrointestinal tract, spinal cord, and so on) to that in the brain.
Read on link below
http://www.alzforum.org/new/pdf/ParkinsonsSeries.pdf
Wait for it…Oh dear its pooh well thats what the guts about I guess,I like the humour interjection in this snippet read on and smile.http://www.wellsphere.com/parkinson-s-disease-article/fecal-transplants-might-cure-pd-no-sh-t-and-imean-that/1343322
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