Ponderings on Parkinsons

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If you found you were going to be on the Big Dipper for the rest of your life, wouldn’t you want to ponder a little? Get things in perspective? Think slowly about this latest twist to your life? Sarah Nock has had Parkinson’s disease for many years and in Ponderings she thinks aloud about its wretched and wayward behaviour in a way that is fascinating, illuminating and often funny. And just beneath her discursive style lies a mine of information about the things that have helped her……

Since writing the book Sarah has made a number of videos about Parkinson's which can be viewed here

Kindness

Cigarettes

Being read to

Tearfulness
Giant hand
Some Reviews

"She describes with wit and verve the many consequences of her illness as it has affected her over the past 20 years........the resilience of the human spirit is revealed..."
- Dr James LeFanu
"I've endured it {PD} with help from many sources, but few more useful than Sarah Nock's little book in which she modestly, and from personal experience [she's suffered from the condition for more than 20 years], provides a touching footnote to the battle................this is a moving and useful guide."
- Leo Cooper

"Sarah Nock talks with revealing honesty about the challenges of living with Parkinson's disease........ What is so inspiring about Sarah, is how her sense of humour has helped her to face this cruel illness, and how her ability to describe the way it affects her has enabled her doctors to achieve a clearer understanding of the condition."
- Diane Kenwood,
"If it's possible to suffer an incurable neurological disease in style then Sarah has achieved it..... Her wit, style and sheer ability to find the fun in things make her an inspiration to anyone........ Sarah's thoughts are helping others suffering from Parkinson's."
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"Sarah Nock has succeeded in writing an entertaining, thought-provoking, and educational book about what it is like to have Parkinson's Disease. It has certainly provided me with a better insight into how this condition can affect people, and with this additional knowledge I hope to be better able to help, and understand, those of my patients who also have Parkinson's Disease - to whom, and those around them, I'll be recommending her book."
- Dr Rob Hicks GP, author, and broadcaster I think your book is informative, encouraging, honest, sad, amusing and heart warming. It should be read by all levels of the medical profession, family carers, and, most importantly, newly diagnosed PD sufferers, as well as those who have been long diagnosed and still trying to come to terms with this puzzling disease.
Eileen Huggett, ex theatre-nurse whose husband has Parkinson's.

It is such a positive and inspirational piece of work. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I think all patients with PD and professionals caring for PD should have the opportunity to read your work.
Cherry-Ann James, Parkinson's Nurse, The National Hospital for Neurology. As well as giving such a vivid impression of what it must be like to have Parkinson's...I loved the way that it was full of literary references and humour and style,
Clare Reddaway, journalist

I have read your “Ponderings” and it is really very good. I think a patient and medics will get remarkable insight into the disease from you.
Adriaan Grobbelaar, Consultant Surgeon I thought it very informative, beautifully written and poignant. I shall give it to my friends, particularly the Nursing Home staff. I am sure they would appreciate an opportunity to read something so relevant to the people they care for every day.
Olive Bowman, whose sister has Parkinson's.


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"She describes with wit and verve the many consequences of her illness as it has affected her over the past 20 years........the resilience of the human spirit is revealed..." - *Dr James LeFanu*	"I've endured it {PD} with help from many sources, but few more useful than Sarah Nock's little book in which she modestly, and from personal experience [she's suffered from the condition for more than 20 years], provides a touching footnote to the battle................this is a moving and useful guide." - *Leo Cooper*
"Sarah Nock talks with revealing honesty about the challenges of living with Parkinson's disease........ What is so inspiring about Sarah, is how her sense of humour has helped her to face this cruel illness, and how her ability to describe the way it affects her has enabled her doctors to achieve a clearer understanding of the condition." - Diane Kenwood,	"If it's possible to suffer an incurable neurological disease in style then Sarah has achieved it..... Her wit, style and sheer ability to find the fun in things make her an inspiration to anyone........ Sarah's thoughts are helping others suffering from Parkinson's." -
"Sarah Nock has succeeded in writing an entertaining, thought-provoking, and educational book about what it is like to have Parkinson's Disease. It has certainly provided me with a better insight into how this condition can affect people, and with this additional knowledge I hope to be better able to help, and understand, those of my patients who also have Parkinson's Disease - to whom, and those around them, I'll be recommending her book." - *Dr Rob Hicks GP, author, and broadcaster*	I think your book is informative, encouraging, honest, sad, amusing and heart warming. It should be read by all levels of the medical profession, family carers, and, most importantly, newly diagnosed PD sufferers, as well as those who have been long diagnosed and still trying to come to terms with this puzzling disease. Eileen Huggett, ex theatre-nurse whose husband has Parkinson's.
It is such a positive and inspirational piece of work. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I think all patients with PD and professionals caring for PD should have the opportunity to read your work. Cherry-Ann James, Parkinson's Nurse, The National Hospital for Neurology.	As well as giving such a vivid impression of what it must be like to have Parkinson's...I loved the way that it was full of literary references and humour and style, Clare Reddaway, journalist
I have read your “Ponderings” and it is really very good. I think a patient and medics will get remarkable insight into the disease from you. Adriaan Grobbelaar, Consultant Surgeon	I thought it very informative, beautifully written and poignant. I shall give it to my friends, particularly the Nursing Home staff. I am sure they would appreciate an opportunity to read something so relevant to the people they care for every day. Olive Bowman, whose sister has Parkinson's.