Pain, anguish, and sadness-pocket emptying experience too long put off— that entirely unexpected and intense aspect began as soon as I started typing
My Personal Experience with Idiopathic Truncal Dystonia
Gives a new and deeper meaning to psychosomatic
Note to the reader:
I finished this piece over 24 hours ago and have been pondering where to submit for publication. KTHT was high on my list and after just reading Jean Carfantan’s beautiful poem on the healing power of illness, the synchronicity has to be abided and thus I submit the piece to my spiritual homegroup.
Glossary:
Dystonia: a condition whereby the patient displays involuntary muscle movements; usually a symptom of a disease or condition. Differential from Parkinson's is its positional nature; e.g., only when standing.
Idiopathic: Not caused by another disease or condition; primary. Laymen’s translation — cause unknown.
Introduction:
In the second half of 2014, at age 47, my physical conditioning peaked. I began running in April and by September and October I ran two ~1 hr 41-minute half-marathons — that's a 7 minutes 42 seconds pace…
