Brought forward now for anyone who might be amenable to sampling my work of lighter, happier days, here's the link you might follow...
Thursday, August 14, 2014
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Brought forward now for anyone who might be amenable to sampling my work of lighter, happier days, here's the link you might follow...
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Best wishes for your surgery, if you so decide. I thought of you today upon reading that Robin Williams was diagnosed with early-stage Parkinson's before his tragic suicide. I guess that plus his depression and substance abuse was just too much to handle.
thanks, Alan. for a longtime creative genius, a master of rapid-fire verbal merriment like RW, the awareness within of his brilliant mind fading and slipping away will have been terrible and terrifying.
depression? you bet. add the other problems, plus cancellation of his TV show... suicide would've seemed a viable solution.
hoping to stave off any such impulses, I'm examining the efficacy of "deep brain stimulation," a surgical procedure which alleviates and can even delay some Parkinson's symptoms (tremor especially). However, this turns one into a quasi-Frankenstein's monster with wires and electrodes, remote controls and a hole in the skull. Robin Williams might have been a perfect candidate; imagine the madcap antics he'd have made of such matter(s)...
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