It is surreal to consider that it was just one year ago I started my Parkinson’s comeback. Much has changed in the past 12 months as my Parkinson’s “progressed,” a word ordinarily reserved for a positive characterization.

Although my symptoms have indeed worsened, my mitigation efforts have added significantly more “time of useful consciousness,” as we used to say in the Navy. The last year has been progressively more difficult, but who said that easier is better?

The last year was busy. B...