Trailer | Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s
Preview: Season 25 Episode 14 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Facing Parkinson's disease, three Americans navigate their lives with determination.
In Matter of Mind: My Parkinson's, three people navigate their lives with resourcefulness and determination in the face of a degenerative illness, Parkinson’s disease. An optician pursues deep brain stimulation surgery; a mother raising a pre-teen daughter becomes a boxing coach and an advocate for exercise; and a cartoonist contemplates how he will continue to draw as his motor control declines.
Trailer | Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s
Preview: Season 25 Episode 14 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
In Matter of Mind: My Parkinson's, three people navigate their lives with resourcefulness and determination in the face of a degenerative illness, Parkinson’s disease. An optician pursues deep brain stimulation surgery; a mother raising a pre-teen daughter becomes a boxing coach and an advocate for exercise; and a cartoonist contemplates how he will continue to draw as his motor control declines.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- I first noticed that I had a tremor in my leg and that was the first sign there was danger on the horizon.
- I was diagnosed with Parkinson's at the age of 39.
- Parkinson's has multiple symptoms which are staggering in their breadth.
- It's exhausting.
Holding it together is more exhausting than the disease itself.
- You never know what's going to happen if you don't give up.
You might live.
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