No Doorway Wide Enough Bill Schmalfeldt on Podiobooks.com

In this FINAL EPISODE of "No Doorway Wide Enough, I'll explain how this book came by its name.  I'll serve up, perhaps, the WEIRDEST dream I've had so far, I'll share a poem I call, "Ode to an Adult Diaper," we'll wrap up the first round of physical therapy, I'll run down a list of things I wanted to discuss with my neurologist at the next visit,  and we'll wrap up this book, on the three year anniversary of the day I had my deep brain stimulation surgery.

Thanks to the cats at Cheap Radio Thrills and Kevin McLeod at Incompetech.com for the music, and thanks to the gang at Podiobooks for putting this on their site.  Now that we have a complete book, I'm asking one final time for you to dig into your pocket and donate to PD research.  You can get a hard copy of this book at practically every major online bookseller and through my website.  And you can donate right here on the Podiobooks website. 

With this episode, the book is complete.  If you've enjoyed this story, if you found it inspirational in any way, I hope you will donate to help find a cure for this devastating disease  Don't forget, 100 percent of all author proceeds go to the National Parkinson Foundation and the Charles DBS Research Fund at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.  Vanderbilt is seeking to expand their clinical trial nationwide... going from the current 30 patients to hundreds, perhaps thousands.  But they need donations.

If this book moved you in any way, if it inspired you, if it made you think about your own mortality and how YOU would handle the diagnosis of this beast of a disease at an early age, then I beeseech you once again to dig into your pockets -- buy a hardcopy, or donate through Podiobooks.

Be watching for my next podiobook, a raucous and horribly politically-incorrect bit of fiction called, "Undercover Trucker, How I Saved America by Truckin' Towels for the Taliban."  Should be up on Podiobooks before too much longer.

Thank you for your time!

In this, the pentultimate episode, I start with the speech therapy.  I share my toughts on whether or not drowning in iced tea is a good way for a man to die.  Then I share some of the untold benefits of working at home, and I wondered aloud about the lack of Parkinson's Disease Awareness during Parkinson's Disease Awareness month and the reasons for it.

One more episode to go!  Remember, you can get hard copies at practically every online bookstore, as well as through my website -- http://parkybill.com or http://parkinsondiary.com.

Every nickel I make from this book is donated to the National Parkinson Foundation and the Charles DBS Research Fund at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.  Either donate through Podiobooks or buy a copy, and help find a cure for this bastard of a disease.

In Episode 15, I talk with blessed assurance about what is going to happen to me after I die... and it has NOTHING to do with religion.  I cause a little kid to be terrified of old men and their walkers.  I have my first really vivid and well-formed hallucination.  I discuss the curse of nightly throat crud.  And I answer a Facebook posting from a very nice lady who said I sounded angry and suffering from hopelessness.

We have just a couple episodes left, and I want to remind you again that you can purchase a hard copy of this book at practically every major online bookseller.  Don't forget, 100 percent of all author proceeds go to the National Parkinson Foundation and the Charles DBS Research Fund at Vanderbilt University Medcal Center.  They get 100 percent of whatever you donate for this Podiobook as well.  Just sayin' is all.

You DO wanna help cure Parkinson's disease, don't you?  :)

 

 

In THIS episode, more bizarre dreams in which Evil Nurses call me a FAKER!  In addition to all my other difficulties, I start having trouble... talking!  It's time for another visit with the neurologist, and I wonder, who should I listen to... the doctor, or the ice cream.  Why is it that young people are in such a hurry when it's the OLD folks who are running out of time?  And everything you ever wanted to know about Parkinson's masking.

All on Episode #14 of No Doorway Wide Enough!

In this episode, we'll discuss life immediately after my sister's untimely passing, more falling, more vivid dreaming, some of the more disgusting and gross aspects of Parkinson's disease, and why it sucks to be slow when it's cold outside.

Don't let the description fool you.  This is a fun episode and a "must listen" for anyone who has ever pooped in the shower.

Thanks to the cats at Cheap Radio Thrills for the music, and thanks to the gang at Podiobooks for putting this on their site.  And thanks to YOU for downloading and listening.

A reminder, you can get hardcopies of this book at:

AMAZON
BARNES & NOBLE
BOOKS-A-MILLION
LULU HARDCOVER-- $45
LULU PAPERBACK -- $30
CREATESPACE PAPERBACK -- $20
AMAZON KINDLE -- $5
LULU PDF DOWNLOAD -- $5
SMASHWORDS eBook -- $5

This is No Doorway Wide Enough, the story of my Parkinson's Decade from getting the diagnosis in 2000 to volunteering for experimental brain surgery in 2007, to the mixed results I'm experiencing today.

In Episode #11, we wrapped up with a little poem called, "Ode to a Frozen Foot."  In this episode, I'll talk about some of the practical applications of freezing, what happens when you step on a dog, a note from Vanderbilt that made me reconsider the wisdom of taking part in the clinical trial, and leg cramps, leg cramps, leg cramps!