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The importance of accepting this disease - told by those who already did it
This is the story of Omotola Thomas. And Damásio Caeiro, Massimiliano Iachini, Pilar Martín, Ricardo Nava and all the people with Parkinson's who (already) realized that it’s more useful to accept a diagnosis — and to have, from the start, more help, more options and less stress — than waste time trying to put it off.
Omola, an English Systems Engineer, can say so herself: diagnosed in 2016, aged 35, she has been - systematically — turning her
Fig. 1 Base of the brain, Usual Medicine Dictionary, Dr Labarthe, 1885
Fig. 2 Damásio Caeiro © Luís Nobre Guedes
Fig. 3 Map of Africa, 2022
Fig. 4 Adult human leg, tibia, posterior view
illness into an opportunity, through Parkinson's Africa, an NGO she created to raise awareness of the disease on the African continent.
Or Damásio Caeiro, a Portuguese driver diagnosed at the age of 50, whose Parkinson’s took the wheel off his hands — but put a table tennis racket instead.
Which, by the way, would lead him to become the world champion runner-up, in the people with Parkinson's category.
Or Massimiliano and his dancing, Pilar and her cooking, Ricardo and his sense of humor, among many others.
Real stories from those who have already realized that they don’t have a minute to spare, except if to tell those who need to hear that the faster you accept, the faster you can (re)start living.
Fig. 1 Base of the brain, Usual Medicine Dictionary, Dr Labarthe, 1885
Fig. 2 Damásio Caeiro © Luís Nobre Guedes
Fig. 3 Map of Africa, 2022
Fig. 4 Adult human leg, tibia, posterior view
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date of preparation June 2022