The Parkinson’s Podcast Unfiltered: Managing Your Stuff and Your Space

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As Heather plans to move to a new house, in this episode, Heather and Kat, talk about the importance and challenges of curating your physical space while living with Parkinson’s.
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Season 5 Episode 17 (Unfiltered Episode 5)

[@terrident4360]

Just completed a cross country move last october from Texas to California to be closer to family. Packed up 30 years of stuff, way to much stuff, in two months, sold and bought a house. Wish I'd gotten rid of more. Sooo stressful, wishing you the best with your move Heather. Love to you both.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

[@kendrapatterson4629]

I love listening to this friendship. Thank you for letting see a glimpse of what a caring and loving relationship looks like ❤

[@lazylindacrocheter4998]

So entertaining and informative.

[@splashesin8]

I grew up on the road mostly. Surprised how long I've been in one place the last half of my life. 😊 Shy, on my report cards. Closet hyperactive after school. 🤣 Third grade teacher years ago at the grocery store, saying to my mom: "Is this the same kid"?
I never dreamed I would ever, become so organized.
Still, I'm now trying to prepare for another inspection, while having to recover my body from yesterday's sojourn marathon to pick up more bank statements on my way to, the housing authority, the complete opposite direction, to meet the surprise deadline for re-certification, of course on foot and three different fixed route busses. Pushing my chair with my box of files in it, and the book of paperwork with at least sixty of my signatures in it, while holding my long navigational cane in the same hands trying to keep my spokes from being ripped out of my wheels while they're being strapped and unstrapped, to the floor of each bus. I need to maintain my housing choice voucher portability long enough to orchestrate moving everything I will need in order to live out in the field a few hundred miles away, with the mobility gear I find necessary everyday.
I will have to build something from the salvaged framework of something else, in my own time, to live in.
I will be near family members who will not be able to conceive of me as an autonomous person going and doing stuff I want to or need to, when I need to do it, and having a good understanding of the why, and how, I know, and have learned, what, my own real needs are, and the difference between needs, and wants. I can certainly get lots more done faster, with, the mobility gear, than without it.