Worrying

2021 ◽  
pp. 44-52
Author(s):  
Allan Hugh Cole
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Clinical Diagnosis ◽  
York City ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Phone Call ◽  
Brain Scan ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Brain

Through personal narrative, this chapter details the approximately ten days between the author’s diagnosis by Dr. T and getting results of the brain scan, called a DaTscan, which would confirm the clinical diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease (PD). During this time, his family and he traveled to New York City, where his wife was running the New York City Marathon. The author recounts his struggles with anxiety about the future, especially as concerns the burdens PD could place on his family and on his ability to continue working. The chapter concludes with a phone call from Dr. T, who confirms that the author does have Parkinson’s.

Beginning

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Allan Hugh Cole
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Movement Disorder ◽  
Clinical Diagnosis ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Primary Care Doctor ◽  
Doctor Who ◽  
Brain Scan ◽  
Movement Disorder Specialist

Through personal narrative, this chapter details the author’s experience of first becoming aware that something was not right with his body. This experience leads to visiting his primary care doctor who tells him that she is concerned about the possibility of his having Parkinson’s disease and then refers the author to a neurologist who is a movement disorder specialist. He is examined by this neurologist, who says, “What worries me is that I think you are in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease,” but who wants the author to have a brain scan that will confirm the clinical diagnosis given his young age and subtle symptoms. The author leaves his office, drives home, and informs his wife that this doctor thinks he have Parkinson’s disease. Here begins his new life as a person with Parkinson’s (PwP).

First Session of the Seventy-seventh Congress, January 3, 1941, to January 2, 1942

1942 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Floyd M. Riddick
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
The Future ◽  
National Constitution ◽  
First Session

The first session of the Seventy-seventh Congress witnessed much activity in both houses, resulting, however, mainly in appropriation measures and defense legislation. Most of the bills carried through to enactment were calculated to meet the expectations of the President as set forth in his annual message of January 6, 1941. In that message, the President assured Congress that the “future and the safety of our country and of our democracy are overwhelmingly involved in events far beyond our borders…. The immediate need,” he said, “is a swift and driving increase in our armament production.” Before the session came to a close, joint resolutions declaring war on Japan, Germany, and Italy were passed. Thus it was perhaps the most epoch-making and influential legislative year, for the future affairs of our people, of any since the “founding fathers” assembled in New York City on March 4, 1789, to start legislating under the new national constitution.

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