Month: February 2022
Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro After 8 Years of Parkinson’s Disease
So…last week, I did something that was sort of cool…maybe a bit outside of my usual routine…and something that I never thought I’d do 8 years after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. I journeyed to Tanzania, Africa, and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro via the Machame Route. What an amazing and challenging journey it was. Words cannot adequately describe the experience, but to say "it kicked my ass" would be an accurate clinical assessment. It's not that I wasn't physically prepared, it was more a case of high altitude and low oxygen challenging my Parkinson's embattled brain. The low dopamine levels in ...