Or is this just the old blog from the time before? That depends.

If you’ve never read my blog before then this is all new, all of it. 100% new! I’ll make comments and references to things I’ve written before on the previous “I Has the Parkinson’s” blog, laugh, and you, being that you’re a new reader, will not understand a thing.

No, I would never do that.

Not without making sure others could share in the entertainment value at your expense.

Just Kidding…Or Am I?

For those of you who are stumbling across this for the first time, be warned: Parkinson’s disease is funny. I should know, I have it.

If you are sensitive about jokes regarding disease or people making light of suffering then you had better get out of the way because I pull no punches. I have a disease. I suffer greatly from it. It would really be a very sad situation if I wasn’t so darned busy laughing at myself.

You are hereby given permission to laugh with me. You may also laugh at me. You may also laugh with me laughing at other people who don’t get the joke. That’s the funniest kind of laughter.

In Case You Missed It, Buy the Book

Now, in case you missed the previous blog and all the fun I had before I got too sick to continue writing it, accidentally removed it all too soon, tried and failed at writing another blog making fun of religious debates (I found it funny, but the religious people had no sense of humor whatsoever…to hell with them), then decided to bring it all back except for the previous stuff. Why re-post the previous stuff when I can sell it to you and make a profit from it? I like money as much as the other guy. I have no problem taking yours for something you could have received for free had you been smart enough to read it before when it was free. Alas, you snooze you lose.

Just kidding again (kinda). The book has the same title as the previous blog and this one, I Has the Parkinson’s, and it is based on the material in the previous blog. But it is expanded and has all new fun stuff in it too. I didn’t want to just rehash the same stuff, not yet. I am waiting until I’m a bit more senile and incapable of doing much more before I do that.

So you will get your money’s worth with the book, I guarantee. (Or is that I will get your money’s worth? Hmmm…)

Oh, and did you notice the funny thing about the title. When we refer to the book, we have to write it in italics, like so: I Has the Parkinson’s. But when we speak of the blog, we put that title in quotes, like this: “I Has the Parkinson’s.” Those are the rules. (I think.) Cool, no?

Aunt China, Poop Readings, and More Bad Kitty

So here I am again, all pumped up with Parkie meds, all doing much better on a great exercise program, and all ready to do what readers have been asking me to get back to doing once again…make fun of myself and Parkinson’s disease.

Expect more stories about Aunt China (pronounced CHEE-NAH, for all you newcomers) and learn how she has taken to reading poop as if it were tea leaves, more stories on how my life with Parkinson’s disease never fails to surprise me, and for all those fans…get ready…you are hearing it here first…Bad Kitty Fridays return. Yep, as in this Friday, October 9th! How great is that?

What? You have Parkinson’s disease but know not of Bad Kitty? Alas, but you too shall become educated in ways you never knew possible of the disease we call Parkinson’s.

PHOTO: “Tigre” by Tomas Aceytuno.