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Tonight, on the Park Right Here Podcast with Katrina, George Ackerman, Founder of Together ForTonight, on the Park Right Here Podcast with Katrina Sharon, a Parkinson's non-profit he began in honor of his mother Sharon. George is a Police Officer in FL, has a PhD in Criminal Justice and is also a Lawyer. 

George will discuss all the books he has written regarding his journey with Parkinson's and his latest book, "Policing and Parkinson's." I will even share a story about an incident that happened with me and the local police!

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 Come and Park Right Here with us as we relaunch the new PRH park right here podcast!! today we have a new collaboration with Eric Aquino from the Gray Strong Foundation. We talk about young onset Parkinson's and what it is meant in our lives and we also just get to know each other. Feel free to send me any questions or ideas that you have for future episodes. You can also let me know if you would like to be a guest on my podcast. Just email me at prhparkrightherepodcast.com 

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Katrina, Tom, and Katrina's cousin Stacy discuss how Parkinson's affects your family dynamics and relationships.

Today, my cousin Stacy sits down with Tom and me to discuss how Parkinson's affects relationships with family members. I hope you enjoy it. We will have many episodes about this subject because it is such a vast topic for Parkinson's patients and their caregivers and family members.

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Tom sits with a nice young lady I met at a Parkinson's symposium. They talk about her journey through the muck and the mire of our current Healthcare System and getting a proper diagnosis. Christina will explain how a neurologist thought it was psychosomatic and not Parkinson's even after being on Sinemet for years. What's your Parkinson's story? Please email us at [email protected]

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General Conversation with Tom and special guest Jim Allen. They of course talk Pickleball, but they also discuss not feeling like a victim  because  of a Parkinson's diagnosis 

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Katrina, Tom, and Stacey sit and discuss the Invention project they were involved in. It is a wonderful program for Middle School students where Tom spoke about his Parkinson's Journey they invented a special glove to help with tremors and also Stacey worked with them. It is an amazing story to hear and I hope you guys enjoy it. We also talk about Mission PD and how it's going. We also talk of course about exercise and Parkinson's. So come join us for another live Thursday podcast of Park Right Here.

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Check out today's episode with Katrina, Tom, and Amy Becker of the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Today our topic is advocacy and what you can do about it. How you can get involved in letting your government officials know more about Parkinson's. Amy's role is at the Michael J. Fox Foundation and getting the word out in DC about how important Parkinson's is and the funding we need in our community. I hope you learn as much as I did and enjoy the discussion as much.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to today's episode number 8 of the Park Right Here podcast! Welcome, as always, with me, Katrina, and Tom, and our special guest today is Stacey Macaluso from Mount Laurel, New Jersey. She runs Mission PD, a non-profit working with the Parkinson's community. We talk about her nonprofit, and we, as in Me, Katrina, and her, connected on a personal level through dance, and we both know what Body Groove is and who Misty Tripoli is!  It was a wonderful experience for me, and I hope it was wonderful for Stacy. Let's not forget Tom. Tom was outnumbered this time for a change. It was a wonderful experience, and it was nice to meet her. We talked about exercise and what it is like not having Parkinson's and working with the Parkinson's community. So come as always and Park Right 

Here with us, and enjoy our conversation. We are live every Thursday at 2:00 pm EST on Facebook Live YouTube, and now we're trying Instagram. If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected] or leave a comment. See you guys next week!

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Hello everyone! Welcome to the park right here podcast episode 7. Yes, we made it to the hump of episode 7. The big milestone of all podcasts. Today, we have a special guest, Kristine Meldrum, PhD " Parkinson's: How To Reduce Symptoms Through Exercise. She sits down with Tom and me, and we have a wonderful discussion. I tell some of my stories, and Tom tells some of his rants, and we have an actual hour-and-a-half show that is full of fun and entertainment, as always. So come with us and park right here and enjoy sometime together. Check us out on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram.

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In Park Right Here podcast episode 6, we talk to Larry, an attorney from Canada. He is also a Canadian Ambassador for the Davis Finney Foundation. We talked about employment and the laws surrounding it concerning when to let your employer know you have Parkinson's and when to possibly go on temporary disability or to start looking at permanent disability. We also talk about exercise and the importance of exercise with Parkinson's. We also discuss the importance of having a sense of humor, so come and Park Right Here with Katrina, Tom, and our guest, Larry.

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