When we're young we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be

but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling. Join up dots features

amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams.

This is your blueprint for greatness.

So here's your host, live from the back of his garden in the UK, David Ralph.

Yes, hello there everybody and welcome to join up dots.

episode 285. When we started joining up Darts many, well it feels like many, many years ago it isn't it?

It's only sort of mumps really, but coming up to 300 episodes ago. We really wanted to give you different stories

so when you tune in on a daily basis you never really know what you're going to get

and some of them are funny, some of them are sad and some of them are like today's which is a combination of both

Now today's guest is an amazingly positive lady who found her life turned around at

the age of 50 when many are looking forward to a life of good health

into their later years. She received a diagnosis that she was a victim of

Parkinson's disease which was not the kind of words that anyone hopes to hear.

Although in truth she didn't stay in the victim mode for long.

As after many dark days spent coming to terms with her diagnosis, a natural comic optimism

and irreverence began to resurface, and she started writing on her blog about a funny side of living with Parkinson's.

She shared the good the bad the up and the downs the funny and the downright hilarious and

alongside her loving family set off to ensure the world

knows that there is a bright side to living with this chronic illness.

Delivering her story in the form of the best-selling book, Shake, Rattle and Roll with it, living and laughing with Parkinson's,

she's seen her life become a world of public speaking and media interviews as the world looks to be informed about something that can happen to all of us.

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