Parkinson's Disease Comments

Too long and meandering.

While spoon-feeding him with one hand she holds his hand with her other hand, or rather lets it rest on top of his, which is permanently clenched shut. disease and its problems. very well portrayed. tony

An extraordinary poem that has rattled my mind!

I found this a lovely commentary on mortality and filial devotion as presumably the husband/narrator watches his wife tend her father in the last stages of Parkinson's disease. With a nod to Roethke's well-known poem (at the end) , the simple, tender language creates a quiet but not sappy portrait of a once robust even hard man who might be at the mercy of his daughter were she another sort, but her portrayal shows us that she is not...He may have been hard at one point, but she is all love and acceptance...which is why he is lucky at this stage in life for it to be a small dislocation for him to pass from this paradise into the next.

I found this a lovely commentary on mortality and filial devotion as presumably the husband/narrator watches his wife tend her father in the last stages of Parkinson's disease. With a nod to Roethke's well-known poem (at the end) , the simple, tender language creates a quiet but not sappy portrait of a once robust even hard man who might be at the mercy of his daughter were she another sort, but her portrayal shows us that she is not...He may have been hard at one point, but she is all love and acceptance...which is why he is lucky at this stage in life for it to be a small dislocation for him to pass from this paradise into the next.