Today’s post is a recap of Day 3 – the final day – at the World Parkinson’s Congress meeting in Kyoto, Japan. I will highlight some of the presentations I was able to catch and try to reflect on what was an amazing meeting.
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The final day of the WPC meeting for me started with Parkinson’s advocate Heather Kennedy‘s presentation on “Your radical new life: Creative ways to overcome our challenges”. In her talk, she spoke of the mindset that is required for tackling Parkinson’s and provided some advice on what-to-do and what-not-to-do.
And Heather was speaking from personal experience. Having been diagnosed in 2012, she has become an active advocate, supporter of Davis Phinney and Michael J Fox Foundations, and an administrator on several online sites. And she regularly speaks about different methods for overcoming the challenges of Parkinson’s:
“It is not ‘why is this happening to me?’, it is ‘what is this teaching me?”
Here is a presenation she gave at the recent Parkinson’s Eve meeting in the UK earlier this year:
Key among her pieces of advice is the need to make connections: