{"id":2459,"date":"2026-04-25T11:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2026-04-28T16:49:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T23:49:23","slug":"many-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2026\/04\/25\/many-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

This site has undergone many changes since I began it in 2014. \u00a0Its new title, reflects my current situation, in particular the subtitle,: Stories on Myself: Notes of a PwP<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2023 I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, PD. This came as no surprise. For several years I had noticed a patten of irritating anomalies, which I attributed simply to aging. \u00a0Once, not quite a decade ago, I got up in the middle of the night to take a leak and found myself making little bitty stamping steps as I crossed the hall of my friend’s apartment in Innsbruck. \u00a0I thought nothing of it. On that or a later trip, during an excursion to ski in the Dolomites, I found myself incapable of even the most basic turns. I fell down repeatedly, to the point that I gave up, took the lift down to the sunny terrace below where I sat drinking beer and waiting for my friend Fritz to finish his appointed runs.<\/p>\n

When covid struck, I found myself strangely at ease with its imposed confinement. I easily accepted that travel was out of the question and that socializing had to be constricted. But other minor irritations began to accrue. My handwriting devolved to a scribble. It was often hard to hear what was being said, and my speech, especially at the end of a day, became feeble, hoarse. I began to wear tee-shirts and pullovers, without realizing this was avoid the trauma of buttons.<\/p>\n

I didn’t <\/span>resume life as before after the quarantine was lifted. I began a new one.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This site has undergone many changes since I began it in 2014. \u00a0Its new title, reflects my current situation, in particular the subtitle,: Stories on Myself: Notes of a PwP In 2023 I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, PD. This came as no surprise. For several years I had noticed a patten of irritating anomalies, which … <\/p>\n

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