Baby Stepping It All the Way

I am overwhelmed by the 10,000 persons with Parkinson’s (PD) and their supporters participating in the PD Unity Walk last Saturday, April 26, 2008, at Central Park in New York City. Outside the park, New York is bustling, and people move fast. Inside the park at the walk, people take baby steps.

I long for the days of old, running 10 milers in the Canadian Rockies and 12 kilometers races at the Bay to Breakers in San Francisco and Bloomsday in Spokane. I reminisce about the long bike rides that Tom and I enjoyed in California, Vermont and Wisconsin.

I am confined, restless and eager to get moving. I feel guilty that I can so easily walk, while others with PD have major mobility and balance problems. I fantasize flying above the Baby-Steppers in Central Park but instead I become one of them, baby stepping it all the way. But at least we are out there taking steps, albeit slow ones.

Julius Erving said, “To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win.” We take baby steps to win the biggest game of our lives - conquering PD.

Comments

[Bob Dawson]

Oh wow, Kate, that is awesome.
And your website gets better all the time.