Avoid 2/3 of Parkinson problems
MasterParkinson.com is the website forLeif Ogard the Swedish author of the book “I have Parkinson’s, but Parkinson’s does not have me”. The amazing story covers the last 22 years. It starts with despair, depression all triggded by the neurologist who diagnosed him having PD. AS if the diagnose was not enougth the doctor added a verdict by telling Leif he should need wheelchair in less than 5 years to be able to move his disabled body!
A wonder (his vwife) saved his life. After turn-around Leif really put his things together. In this part of Leif’s book anyone can find treasure “How to handle the unexpected situations we all come into when walking the path of life”. Valuable for all not only people diagnosed with PD!
Now 22 years later Leif is just as active as ever before. He still have his own part of the Management Consultant Company he started two years after the “sick” diagnosis. “Work is the best medicine to me” declares Leif. I haven’t been sick and stayed home a single day over the more than 8 000 days I have had PB. I have never had any reason whatsoever to use a wheelchair.
Leif travels around the world and give lectures about his experience how to live with and how to win over Parkinson’s. In 2008 Leif gave a lecture in Beijing, China on the Congress on Excellence in Sport and Life the week after the Olympic Games.
Leifs challenging conclution about how it is possible to handle PD today is:
We can how to avoid 2/3 of today normally expected problems with PD!
The keys for this lies in key factors asdescribed in Leifs book. For example Self Care, Daily Physical and Mental Training and Taking Own Total Responsibility.
There are many barrier breaking conclusions in this little big book. It is a book for all with PD and their famililies and it is a book for anyone who comes into a peronal crises situation.
Quote from a customer from New Zealand who found daily help in the book: “It is abook to own!”