I think Parkinsonās Disease is an interesting subject. At my age Iāve had a few friends and relatives whoāve had it or still have it but as the title of this discussion implies, the incidence of it has doubled in the last 20 years.
Itās a long discussion but very informative and perhaps a little scary.
Fitting new thread
Iām off back to Hospital - in a small town an hour from here - to have a knee replacement done in mid May
It needs doing, I am terrified of it - the Doc is the top guy in Krakow and does an āin the sticks clinicā so I had the look at my knee visit yesterday and surgery is booked for May rather than in November.
He speaks good English. Nobody else will and Mrs P_F wonāt be able to come see me
And yeah, a lot of illnesses have become more prevalent of late
Yeah that video on Parkinsonās starts by saying itās a man made disease which surprised me. The fact was it was a very rare disease before the Industrial revolution and the major cause seems to be environmental pollution. Big indication is pesticides have played a big part in the upsurge. 
And back in the day people largely carked it well before most degenerative diseases conditions could carry them offā¦
Indeed.
The story that I remember
Basically - Deodorant use means youāre screwed
Ten years today since I was diagnosed with CLL
Iām a pensioner so not going to be an issue for me.
It must be a bugger keeping staff for any length of time at Slowlane Mansions, what with the hired help being run over by runaway horse and carts, random threshing machine accidents and not to mention the kids getting stuck up chimneys etcā¦
Thatās what most people donāt realiseā¦thanks for your thoughtful post.
When you have a house with 12 chimney stacks and fire places on 3 stories we have got through a lot of youngsters over the years. 
Do you make sure that the fire is out before you send them up the chimneyā¦
Of course not. A bit of naked flame gets the little blighters up there twice as fast, so itās half the wages. Have you learned nothing from our resident overseer? 
Mods?
Shouldnāt this post be on the Epstein thread?
Also it burns out the dead ones, saves hiring more to remove themā¦
Absolutely, the average serf has little insight into staffing problems, be they indentured or expendables. 
Already got MS but I do my best not to smell
The bit about Aluminium and MS and other neuro diseases has been going around for over 30 years and nobody seems to have got any further with it.
When Lady Slowlane was diagnosed with MS 43 years ago they didnāt even have a test to diagnose itā¦if you had none of the others you had MS.
Not much progress since eitherā¦fortunately or unfortunately, you can get it on a scale from 1 to 100.
The only good news is that there are 21 meds which helps slow it down. 25 years ago there were none.
And big advances in knowledge of lifestyle impacts such as foods which are inflammatory and make MS worse and others which make it easier.
I love my Mother in Law.
She just collected my Tramadol prescription
Yes i know 2 a week purely so i can manage 2 days a week of 7km walking or more. Today managed 2.8kms and just starting to scream
More kms before the Op the faster i get off tge crutches.
Thursday 
personal trainer at gym intro & day 1
Struggling to find a pool easy to reach/affordable