My Parkinson's DiaryMy Parkinson's DiaryDiagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2000, Deep Brain Stimulation surgery in 2007, I’m a 55-year old Federal Employee who works from home because my walking and balance have gone to hell. Still, I attempt to attack this disease… mostly by laughing Articles
Liveblogging the Droolfest -- Day 4
2007-10-19 10:32:00 8:34 amWe're halfway through. Huzzah!Actually feeling slightly peppier this morning than I did yesterday. Maybe that was the low point and it gets better from here. We shall see.Slept great, thanks again to Mr. Ambien. I understand there were severe storms that rolled through Nashville last night. Couldn't tell by me. Closed my eyes at around 10:30 and didn't open them until about 7.Just had a shower, followed by breakfast. Not quite feeling "energetic" or anything like that, but I do feel like I'm in a better mental place today than I was yesterday.So... we await the "Arm Purpling Blood Pressure Torture," the visit from Dr. C, and then a visit with my little brother tonight.-----8:18 pmI think I've figured out why my BP has been trending high during the "Arm Purpling Blood Pressure Torture."When we do the sitting part, I generally sit on the edge of the bed, which presses into the back of my thighs, cutting down on the flow of blood in... More About: Liveblogging
Liveblogging the Droolfest -- Day 3
2007-10-18 10:45:00 8:47 amSlept like a lord last night. Two Ambien before bed did the trick. I don't think there was any construction going on, but really they could have torn down the hospital and built a new one around me and I probably wouldn't have noticed.Just had brekky... bacon, omelet, a tiny danish, cereal and coffee.Typing is beginning to get challenging. Perhaps it would be instructive in one of these posts to just leave up what I originally type without going back to correct it. Maybe by Sunday or Monday I'll give that a try.Other than my morning visit with Dr. Charles and the "Arm Purpling Blood Pressure Torture," really not much on the agenda today.------7:30 pmMan, I really have been out of it today.Really nothing to write about today. I took a 45-minute stroll around the campus this afternoon and have been wiped out since. My legs ache, my arms weigh a ton, and even my FACE feels tired.Talked to Gail for awhile this afternoon, and she noticed that... More About: Liveblogging
Liveblogging the Droolfest -- Day 2
2007-10-17 04:17:00 2:19 amWhat I want to know is, who's brilliant idea was it to conduct overnight construction projects here in the Medical Center North area? Since about 10 pm last night, someone (it sounds like he's one floor below me) has been running what sounds like a pneumatic paint chipper. Forget getting any sleep. The grinding, grinding, grinding and grinding have put an end to all hopes of that! I have to wonder... did whoever authorized this overnight work realize that there is a Clinical Research Center here on the third floor, with PATIENTS, some of whom might want to actually get some SLEEP at some point during the night?I'm sure it seemed like a great idea to someone. We'll chip paint, or remove plaster, or grind up drywall or whatever the bloody @($#! they're doing down there at almost 2:30 in the morning while all the offices are empty.I know we PD patients are not the only ones here in the Research Center tonight. Sorta makes you wonder what ... More About: Liveblogging
Liveblogging the Droolfest -- Day 1
2007-10-16 09:39:00 7:40 amGot up about an hour ago. Felt a keen desire to take a Stalevo. May as well take them while I still can, right?We're about 20 minutes away from the first appearance of our old friend, "Lump o' Egg." That is, if they don't cross me up and put an OMELET on there today. That could happen. I won't know until it gets here.Met the other three DBS dudes here for their own 8-day assessment. Two have had the surgery, one is in the control group. Those guys are the real heroes, I think. They devote themselves to coming here and taking part in the study, even though they haven't had the surgery. But without them to compare the surgery patients to, this whole thing is a waste of time from a research point of view. Oooooh. The CNN weather guy says we might be in for severe weather here. Cool. But I do need to dash out to a convenience store today to get some basic staples... soap, shampoo. I forgot.&n... More About: Liveblogging
Liveblogging the Droolfest -- Day 0
2007-10-15 19:00:00 5 pm (Central Time)Well, here I am -- same room as last time I was here for an 8-day stint. I'm all checked in. Nurse Eunice has strapped the wrist band on. I have officially begun the 8-Day Droolfest II.I'll write more in a bit. Dinner just got here. And it's meatloaf. Mmmmmm. Meatloaf.----Well, I made quick work of that. Wasn't really hungry... pigged out at McDonalds at BWI before getting on the plane.Ah, the plane. There's usually at least one major annoyance per plane trip. This time it was the yammering, nattering old lady in the seat behind me. This easily offset the bonus of having an empty middle seat next to me. I employed one of the "How to Get an Empty Seat" techniques I defined in a recent blog entry -- find a fat guy sitting by a window, grab the aisle seat, leave an impossibly thin space between you and the other fat guy. It worked again. But the yammering, nattering, high-pi... More About: Liveblogging
YOUTUBE Makes Me Look Bald, Fat
2007-10-12 11:21:00 The good folks here at the National Institutes of Health have devoted part of their monthly "i on NIH" video podcast to my surgery. You can see it here on YOUTUBE.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_ 8XUaNqrjcIf you'd like to see the entire NIH Video Podcast, click...http://helix.od.nih.gov/vodcast/1 0122007vodcast_0006.mp4Yes, that is my voice at the beginning. My story is about halfway through the podcast. More About: Youtube
Dr. Charles to the Rescue!
2007-10-09 09:19:00 Yesterday was Columbus Day. That being one of those phony baloney government holidays, it meant I had the day off as I am a phoney baloney government employee. As we are in the midst of the most ungodly hot and humid October on record here on the Eastern Seaboard, I was lounging about in my summer "at home" uniform. Underpants.Shortly after noon, the phone rang. It was Dr. Char les . He was in Washington. He had brought the DBS programmer along with him. And he offered to fix the problem I was having with the stimulation in the right brain if I could get to his hotel at 6 that evening.Now here I had been expecting to just leave the right brain electrode turned off until the end of the upcoming 8-Day Droolfest. But the good doctor said he preferred that I have the thing turned on and set at a comfortable level, even though in a week we will be shutting the whole thing down for eight days.So, I put on some clothes (after a n... More About: Rescue
May I Take Your Order, Sir?
2007-10-05 10:53:00 (EDITOR's NOTE -- Sorry... I had to disable "comments" for the time being. A "spammer" found this blog, and I've had to delete hundreds of "spam" comments. If you have something to say to me, click the e-mail link. And thanks!)Coming up, a trip to Los Angeles, the difficulties of ordering a pizza from a motel room, and the continuing adventures of Dysko Billy. But first, off to the newsroom. Looks like they have some catching up to do in Korea. Korea has more Parkinson's disease patients per capita than any other country in the world, but 70 percent are misunderstood as suffering from normal aging effects or senile dementia and are not receiving proper treatment. Only 33.3 percent of Parkinson's patients in Korea are diagnosed accurately, with the other 66.7 percent believed to be suffering from normal aging effects or dementia. If you happen to check out the website, try not to be taken aback by the last paragraph, in which it states PD event... More About: Order
The Adventures of DYSKO BILL!!!
2007-09-23 08:48:00 Well. Darned if THIS isn't turning into something of a mystery! As I mentioned in my previous entry, I had planned to just let this thing sit and stew awhile in the hopes that the dyskinesia and other side effects would just calm down. Then, on Wednesday, I had a revelation. An incorrect one as it turned out... But still... As I stood on the train platform waiting for the Maryland Amateur Railroad Club to arrive, collect its passengers and whisk us all to DC, I realized that I could NOT get my left knee to lock and allow me to put my weight on my left leg, stiff-legged. That's when the light went on. Left side. Controlled by right brain. Both sides of the brain getting the same, new setting of 1.5 watts from the adjustment on the 17th. As I am primarily RIGHT sided with my symptoms, this MUST mean the RIGHT brain (which controls the LEFT side, which is NOT as badly affected by my PD) is getting -- TOO MUCH STIMULATION and that HAD to be ca... More About: Adventures , Bill , The Adventures , Advent , Ventures
Would you like some HUBRIS with that, sir?
2007-09-18 12:30:00 I’ve got some tips on how to ensure an empty seat next to you on a crowded airplane, as well as how to mask that pesky dyskinesia. And would you care for a helping of hubris with that? Fine. But first? Off to the newsroom. You know what they say… all God’s chilluns got genes? It’s true! And it MIGHT be your genes that resulted in you coming down with early PD. According to the Science Daily website people with a certain gene mutation are more likely to get Parkinson's disease before the age of 50 compared to those without the gene abnormality. This is according to a study published in the September 18, 2007, issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. For the study, researchers analyzed the genes of 278 people with Parkinson's disease and 179 people without the disease. The study found 14 percent of the people with Parkinson's disease carried mutations in the glucocerebrosidase (GBA)... More About: Some
Do Not Hate Me Because I Am Beautiful
2007-09-05 08:34:00 As I write this, I am 12-weeks post surgery. I'm starting to realize I am not going to be disfigured for life.Here's how I look this morning.Now, compare that to how I looked the day of surgery.All lumpy and misshapen... ick!And then, THIS from a few days later!I look like I did five rounds with Mike Tyson... except for the lack of damage to the ears. They warn you about this before you go home from surgery... in four or five days post op, the fluids that gathered in your scalp during and immediately after surgery react to gravity and flow down your face, gathering in your eye sockets. Very pretty.Then this photo from the day I had the neurostimulators put in.Just call me "Zipper Head." But, as you can see, all it takes is a little hair (in the places I can actually GROW some), some time... and viola!Oh, and do you recognized that white thing with the circles behind my head?Yup! It's the stereotactic frame they used for the surgery.In slightly less t... More About: Hate , Beautiful
FREE COFFEE!!! FREE COFFEE!!! FREE COFFEE!!!
2007-08-30 08:46:00 I started my day yesterday getting yelled at by a woman in our cafeteria. I was apparently too slow with my "free coffee" card.See, when you buy a cup of coffee in the cafeteria, the cashier punches a little "coffee club" card. When you get 10 punches, that cup is free.So, yesterday I made my usual stop for a cup of coffee, a banana and a blueberry muffin. And, as luck would have it, this was my 10th cup of coffee on this particular card. I took my purchase to the cashier and dug out my wallet for the money to pay with, and the coffee club card, which I placed on the counter as she totaled my purchase.The cashier told me my total, which included full price for the coffee. I smiled, pointed to the card, and remarked that I had a free cup coming.The woman sagged and blew out a puff of air as if she had just been punched in the belly. Then she looked at the total showing on the register, then at me with an expression that indicated her opinion of my ... More About: Coffee , Free
Experimenting with Meds
2007-08-27 15:26:00 OK -- so I'm experiencing dyskinesia. We knew the day would come. It came. In a way, I'm kinda glad about it. Now I know what I will be avoiding when I finally get the full benefit of DBS.I've had a few more episodes since the one I wrote about in my last entry. Dr. Charles called me at home Tuesday night after Chandler passed my e-mail of concern on to him. When I left the Clinic last Monday, we decided that with the slight uptick in the wattage on my DBS unit, we would go from my taking four Stalevo 150s each day to 3 of the 150s and 1 of the Stalevo 100s. Well, after talking to Dr. Charles, he suggested that I just go ahead and drop down to 4 of the 100s each day.I did that for a day or two, and I just didn't feel like it was getting as much control of my symptoms as I would like. So, on Saturday I started taking a 150 in the morning and another 150 at midday, with the 100s in the late morning and right before bed.Then on Sunday... More About: Meds , Peri , Rime
Dyskinesia? Moi?
2007-08-21 15:25:00 A crazy Elvis lady, a pain in the butt New York lady, a fellow traveler in the clinical trial, and – dyskinesia? These are the things I want to write about in connection with my second DBS programming trip to Nashville yesterday. Let’s take up that last one first. At first I wasn’t quite ready to declare this dyskinesia. And it certainly was not caused by the hiking up of the wattage in the old fuse boxes yesterday, and here’s how I know. I felt this way yesterday morning, in the Baltimore airport, while waiting for the plane to Nashville. I attributed it to nerves and the two candy bars and bottle of tea I had just consumed. But it got to the point where I had to get up and walk around a little because sitting still just was not an option. Then, after the adjustment yesterday, I took a Stalevo 150 at about 4pm. An hour later I was sitting in a restaurant at the airport and the feeling came over me again. This time, I was less succes...
HUBRIS!!! I Am Guilty of HUBRIS!!!
2007-08-09 10:33:00 AUGUST 9, 2007 All right. Yesterday, I wrote the following words… Tonight I will leave the office at 3:30, get to the METRO 10 minutes later, arrive at Union Station by 4:15 and catch the MARC Camden Line train at 4:39, which is supposed to have me to Dorsey Station by 5:22 p.m. Hubris! Pure, unadulterated hubris! Excessive self-confidence to the point of arrogance. I really, really thought I could leave my office and get home in a time frame much like I described above. I am a fool. Oh, I did leave the office at 3:30. And I caught a shuttle to the METRO Station just about the time I walked out the front door. That part of the trip home went very well. When I arrived at the Medical Center METRO Station and rode the longest escalator in the world (I think it really is!) down into the bowels of the Earth, only then did I learn what horror awaited. Someone was making an announcement over the loudspeaker. It sounded like this: “Attention, ME... More About: Guilty
A Rant (About Infrastructure)
2007-08-08 14:31:00 (TRANSCRIPT -- AUGUST 8, 2007 PODCAST) &nb sp; We’re going to hell in a hand basket. As a country, I mean. And I’m talking about our infrastructure. Bear with me. This has nothing to do with Parkinson’s or my DBS surgery. I just feel a long-overdue and righteous rant coming on. The bridge collapse in Minneapolis, for instance… I’m frankly shocked that we don’t hear about stuff like that happening every day. Just look at the condition of our infrastructure. What ISN’T on the verge of breaking down? Let’s start with our train system. Here in Maryland, we have the MARC trains that run from Baltimore to DC. I’m not sure what MARC stands for – it may stand for “Maryland Amateur Railroad Club.” In DC proper, you have the METRO – a combination subway/above-ground rail system. Not a week goes by where SOMETHING doesn’t break on either the MARC or the METROâ€... More About: Infrastructure , Rant , Structure
Billy Dent Head
2007-07-23 10:24:00 It's no big deal. Really, it's not. But I seem to have developed two dents in my head. Since the healing of the surgical scars from my DBS surgery on June 13, I've noticed that there's a bit of a dent towards the front of the scar on the right side of my scalp, and another one just posterior of the burr hole cap that fills the hole the doctor drilled in my skull. It's nothing terribly serious... they look like what you might expect from a large hailstone hitting the hood of your car. My son the auto mechanic has offered to get his hands on a dent-puller at work to fix these dents, but somehow I don't think that is a good idea. Nor do I like his suggestion of filling in the dents with spackle and then sanding them down. But his heart is in the right place. Now that the old bean is healing up, I will actually walk around in the presence of people without covering my disfigurement with a hat. When everything was still all scabby, I felt t... More About: Head , Billy , Bill
PD -- The Early Days
2007-07-18 08:59:00 SUMMER 1972 ; The table was set for lunch, although they called it “supper.” I never understood that. To me the word “supper” was interchangeable with the word “dinner.” But I didn’t care what they called it. After a long, hot morning of hauling hay bales with my brother Bob and our friend Eric, I was hungry. And whatever what they called it, there sure was a lot of it! Hot fresh baked rolls with honey to slather over them. A huge bowl of boiled potatoes mashed with the peels still on them. Corn on the cob drizzled with melted butter. A pitcher of Kool-Aid that, for some reason, they called “nectar.” And chicken! Heaping mounds of it. Hot, crispy, golden fried. Delicious! ; A guy didn’t make much money hauling hay bales on the Bornemann farm. A nickel per bal... More About: Days , Early , Earl
NIH Research Radio -- July 13, 2007
2007-07-13 19:00:00 #0036 Report from NIH Research Radio -- Topics for Friday, July 13, 2007 Coming up on this edition - even though Father's Day has come and gone, Wally Akinso has some advice for dads that can help them assure they'll be around for many Father's Days to come. We'll have a report about a study shows that retinopathy - or deterioration of the retina - may be prevented or lessened by a change in the diet. Wally returns with a look at the first anniversary of the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases' Celiac Disease Awareness Campaign. But first, analyses of a national sample of individuals with alcohol dependence reveals five distinct subtypes of the disease, according to a new study by scientists at the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Episode #0036 show notes E-mail Bill Schmalfeldt Podcast archives More About: Adio
First Programming -- Done!
2007-07-10 13:54:00 I overslept this morning. Got home from Nashville at around 8:15, went to bed shortly after 9, got up at 4:45 a.m. I’m usually up by 4. It’s an occupational hazard. Now that I’m taking the train every day, I gotta be at the train station by 5:51 in order to get to work at or near 7 a.m. No time for coffee this morning, and that probably has more to do with my sense of ennui than does the fact that my Deep Brain Stimulation is turned on, programmed and functioning.The flight to Nashville was uneventful, except for the young father and his two darling, precocious little treasures who sat in the seats in front of me. I’m guessing they were around 2 and 4 respectively and neither child has yet developed an “inside voice.” They weren’t crying or fussy. But they SQUEALED the entire flight.“Oooooh, Daddy! Lookit this PICTURE, Daddy! Lookit the PICTURE of the KITTEN, Daddy! Lookit! Lookit! Awwwwww!... More About: Programming , Ming , Gram , Done
The Stimulators are IN!!!
2007-07-05 10:05:00 Huzzah! I'm home. No more surgery! The neurostimulators are in. All that remains is the programming.Out of all three phases of DBS surgery, I think this has been the most painful, even though it was far less complicated than the insertion of the brain leads -- and far less demanding physically and emotionally. I wonder if this is what women feel like when they get breast implants put in. When I woke up from the anesthesia, one of the first things I noticed was that my neck hurt like hell. In my dazed and confused state, I wondered -- "What the hell did they do to my neck??? Was I hard to intubate? Did they have to twist me into unusual shapes?" But then I realized the pain was caused by what they had to do to run the wires from the Soletra neurostimulators under each collarbone, up along my neck, behind my ears, and then the connection to the leads -- which they had to make new cuts into my previously insulted scalp to get ...
NIH Research Radio -- June 29, 2007
2007-06-29 19:00:00 #0035 Report from NIH Research Radio -- Topics for June 29, 2007 Coming up on this edition, an interview with the Director of the Office of Cancer Survivorship at the National Cancer Institute. We have a report on how urological diseases cost Americans $11 billion each year. And Bill Schmalfeldt shares a final report on his experience as a patient in a clinical trial. But first, Wally Akinso has a report about a blood test that might signal good news for folks suffering from throat cancer. Episode #0035 show notes E-mail Bill Schmalfeldt Podcast archives More About: Adio
Two Down, One to Go
2007-06-16 20:15:00 June 13, 2007. Here I am, in the surgical suite at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. All smiling and happy, without a care. Dr. Konrad, my esteemed neurosurgeon, snapped this shot with his Treo 650 cell phone. Then he took a photo of what was going on there on the other side of the plastic sheet.That is correct, sports fans! I have undergone Bilateral Deep Brain Stimulation of the Subthalamic Nucleus -- at least as far as placement of the electrode leads. The final surgery will be on July 3rd (moved from June 25) at which time Dr. Konrad will implant the Soletra impulse generator. What you see in the picture above is the frame made for me as a result of the previous operation (the bone markers), with the drivers installed, and the probes being advanced downward into my brain.Here's another look at the frame.Those screws were left in my skull for the past week, and the frame was placed over them.I will describe the surgery in much more d...
NIH Research Radio -- June 15, 2007
2007-06-15 19:00:00 #0034 Report from NIH Research Radio -- Topics for Friday, June 15, 2007 Coming up on this edition, once again we'll delve into the archives and bring you some stories you may have missed if you've just recently discovered this podcast. This time, five stories from 2006. Wally Akinso shares a report from the National Diabetes Education Program about how it's never too early to prevent diabetes. Matt Thornton has a report from July 2006 on hyperthermia concerns raised by the warm summer weather. From September 2006, we'll look at a disease called P-A-D that really hits below the belt. And Wally returns with a look at how those who start drinking in their early teens are on a faster track towards developing alcohol dependency at some point in their lives. But first, a fascinating look at the early development of language. Episode #0034 show notes E-mail Bill Schmalfeldt Podcast archives More About: Adio
One Down, Two to Go!
2007-06-07 08:23:00 I have four hunks of metal in my head. And now I look like Peter Boyle -- the monster in "Young Frankenstein."Well... kinda. See, here's Boyle as the dapper, man-about-town monster...And here's me.I guess I look a little happier than the monster... although he DOES have more hair.As you can see, I was wrong about where these bone markers would be placed. Based on the images in the Vanderbilt DBS booklet, I thought the markers would be installed in a diamond pattern.I got more of a "box" design. Or, more accurately, I look like some sort of giant cat bit me on the noggin.So. One operation down, two to go. I'll have the electrodes implanted on June 13. Then I'll have the stimulators installed on the 25th. At that point, the surgeries will be over and all that will remain is the programming.If you'd like to hear a more detailed account of my trip to Nashville, the pissy TSA agent at the BWI airport, the effort to stuff my fat carcass ...
NIH Research Radio -- June 1, 2007
2007-06-01 19:00:00 #0033 Report from NIH Research Radio -- Topics for Friday, June 1, 2007 Coming up on this edition, we'll delve into the archives and bring you some stories you may have missed if you've just recently discovered this podcast. This time, four stories from 2005. Some advice on how to beat the heat from the National Institute on Aging; Wally Akinso filed a report in August 2005 about survey results that show that a lack of physical activity is playing a key role in teenage girls gaining weight. Also from that month, a study that showed that teen drivers are more likely to exhibit unsafe driving behaviors when there is another teen as a passenger in the vehicle. But first, from July 2005, a report about how the National Kidney Disease Education Program urges families - especially African-American ones - to use summertime reunions to spread the word about kidney disease. Episode #0033 show notes E-mail Bill Schmalfeldt Podcast archives More About: Adio
Last Looks at a Pristine Dome (WARNING -- Graphic Images of Surgery!!!)
2007-06-01 08:35:00 WHAT DOLEFUL PLANET IS THIS, RISING MALEVOLENTLY ON AN ARID HORIZON? WHAT EVIL DOES IT FORETELL? WHAT ILL PORTENT DOES IT BRING? BY WHAT NAME SHALL THIS FOUL SPHERE BE KNOWN?Nay, Gentle Reader! It is no planet, no celestial body spinning in the empty cosmos.It's my dome.Freshly shaved for the insult that awaits it this month... for today is the first of June... and when the month is over, no longer will I be the owner of such a smooth, pristine dome! So, take your last looks. Admire it.Were you HERE, I would even invite you to TOUCH it! Because in a matter of days, it will no longer be so smooth, so shiny, so enticing and free of blemish. They -- and by "they", I mean the good doctors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center -- have PLANS for this beautiful globe of bone and skin.On Sunday I leave for Nashville for the bone marker implantation, which will be done on Tuesday the 5th. This will leave my pristine noggin with four fr... More About: Images , Surgery , Warning , Graphic , Look
Reality Rears Its Beautiful Face
2007-05-29 10:58:00 By the way... Podcast #13 is online and available. Just in cast you're interested. You'll find the link at our home page -- http:www.billywisdom.com.One week from right now, I will be heading over to the radiology clinic at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center to have the four bone anchors drilled into my skull. They'll use these anchors to fasten the stereotactic platform to my noggin when the electrodes are inserted on the 13th. They'll put me under general anesthesia, put in the bone anchors -- which, to me, resemble nothing more than the kind of wall anchors you sink into drywall when you want to hang a heavy picture or mirror on the wall -- and then while I'm still being rocked in the gentle arms of Lady Anesthesia, they'll take advantage of my motionless condition to get CT and MRI photos so Dr. Konrad and his team can plan their surgical approach. Then I'll come home the following day and rest up for the big event. At present, I'm res... More About: Reality , Beautiful , Face , Ears , Ality
Not Everything is PD -- Sometimes You Just Live Life!
2007-05-21 09:11:00 First a housekeeping note. This week's podcast is now online at http://parky.billywisdom.com. Next week’s podcast will be a day late – hopefully not a dollar short. My oldest son, Peter, is getting married in St. Louis on Saturday, May 26 and I won’t be home until late in the day on Monday. So you’ll get the podcast on Tuesday. In fact, this next month will see the podcast being offered on an irregular basis. The following week, I will be in Nashville getting the bone anchors installed in my skull, so the podcast will likely not be available until Thursday that week. And then, we’ll hold off on a following podcast until after I get home from having the electrodes implanted on June 13. This past weekend was a great one for just being alive. For one thing, my dogs invented a game. Really. They invented a game with rules and everything. I call it “Foody Foody Bowl Ball.” They just started playing it ... More About: Life , Live , Some
NIH Research Radio -- May 18, 2007
More articles from this author:2007-05-16 16:00:00 #0032 Report from NIH Research Radio -- Topics for Friday, May 18, 2007 Coming up on this edition, part two of our observance of HIV Vaccine Awareness Day. Wally Akinso has some advice for women on how to stay heart healthy. Bill Schmalfeldt sits down with a young man who is taking his personal campaign against Alzheimer's Disease to the mountainous roads of Western America. And we'll hear some tips on how you can keep your skin "sun safe" during the warm summer months. But first, a study shows that most folks with drug use disorders never get treatment. Episode #0032 show notes E-mail Bill Schmalfeldt Podcast archives More About: Adio 1, 2, 3 |
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