Chris Lacey

[jeeves19]

I see that Chris has put his story up on some blog site. Rather than distribute, fellow PWPs can read it straight off. Good luck comrades.

wheelnroundworkshop.blogspo...

[Lizzy9]

Thank you for sharing. Very encouraging and amazing!!!

Blessings and Happy New Year!!!

[Bolt_Upright]

Head's Up: I reviewed that blog. It is from 2013 when Chris was still on Parkinson's meds. I poked around the blog and the web version of it and started to think maybe Chris had not recovered.

Then I re-found the update from Chris you posted 5 months ago, which is much more positive: "With respect to my own recovery I have no way of knowing precisely what changed within my brain that allows me to lead a totally normal life. I make no concessions to the Parkinson’s of my past. I just get on with living life to the full. I guess that either my Substantia Nigra cells regained their lost dopamine producing function or new cells formed. Whatever the process, it is clear that I have all the dopamine I need to live a full, rewarding life without any concessions to my past or to my 75 years - yes, I just reached that milestone. Over the last ten days I have spent at least 25 hours up on the roof of our house using a pressure cleaner to remove a huge build-up of lichen that made moving on the roof dangerous and was eating into it’s surface. Not bad for an old fart who is still not recognised by most medicos as being recovered. The best concession to date seems to be that I remain in remission. And that after 8 years without the disease or any need for any medication of any sort. From my perspective I am cured and really don’t care what the medical profession thinks. I and a few others have been able to show that it is possible to recover from PD." healthunlocked.com/cure-par...

[jeeves19]

For those of you that like an ‘end point’, Chris remarked this morning the following in response to how long restoration took:

All I can offer Adam is that it took me 2500 hours or so over 15 months. I guess I could add "how long is a piece of string"? I can't offer a more precise answer. One has to give it a go, stick with it and see what happens down the track’.

I’m not pretending what an immense amount or work that this represents gang. Quite a mountain to climb!

[gomelgo]

How am I missing the "what" of what he actually did? Could someone please help me with this?

[Reetpetitio in reply to gomelgo]

Sounds like the missing piece of the blog post is that he did tons of woodworking and got better!

[jeeves19 in reply to Reetpetitio]

Yeah I’ve got the getting better bit on my phone. I’ll try and move it to the site later today?

[jeeves19 in reply to Reetpetitio]

Difficult! If you or any others want to send me your email address, I know I can send it that way?

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[gomelgo in reply to jeeves19]

Can you just paste it here?

[Reetpetitio in reply to jeeves19]

Thanks, done - Sarita

[jeeves19]

cured his PD. Built up so many new neural pathways that somehow they started generating dopamine again. I think he’d be the first to admit he doesn’t understand exactly what the change was internally but he hasn’t had to take meds for 8? Years now and is symptom free.

[rebtar]

I think being able to live in the present moment without regrets of the past or worries about the future plays a big role. Moving from sympathetic to parasympathetic dominance. Typically, we PDers are worriers and perfectionists. I am more aware lately that I have not been very good at enjoying life!

[jeeves19]

I’ve tried believe me. I’ve even had my kids who are usually good with phones on it. One observation was that I seem not to have much free memory on it and so it’s limiting my ability to work with documents?