Description: Colonel Parkinson in Charge : A Wry Reflection on My Incurable Illness, Paperback by Gravel, Francois; Pomerance, Shelley (TRN), ISBN 1487010303, ISBN-13 9781487010300, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US A writer’s witty and surprisingly optimistic account of learning to live with Parkinson’s disease. When he was sixty-five, François Gravel was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, upending the old age he had imagined for himself. As a way of contemplating his new life with a degenerative illness, he turned to what he knew best and loved most: writing. Gravel immersed himself in research on Parkinson’s, exploring its medical history and treatments and paying close attention to the changes he experienced, all in service of learning how to best manage his symptoms throughout the advancement of this incurable disease. With a lightness of touch that belies a difficult subject (he imagines Dr. Parkinson as a military man who has set up camp in his brain), Gravel shares what he has learned in a memoir that is at once charming, serious, and moving. He writes, “For a long time, I believed that Parkinson’s was a disease. Now, I realize it’s a philosophy course.” Colonel Parkinson in Charge is, in some ways, the companion text for this course, engaging with and demystifying a daunting subject to help readers better understand life with Parkinson’s disease.
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Book Title: Colonel Parkinson in Charge : a Wry Reflection on My Incurable Illness
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Topic: Neurology, People with Disabilities, Personal Memoirs, Medical
Publication Year: 2023
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Medical
Item Weight: 5.5 Oz
Author: François Gravel
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
