Kitty and Mike talk about their 2025 and hopes for 2026. Emma will be back in 2026!

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There's a huge range of different symptoms caused by Parkinsons, and Kitty and Emma talk about how they experience some and not others at different times. They explain how they try and roll with it. Adapt and keep moving people!

We're feeling the fear and doing it anyway in this episode! Kitty and Emma talk about how scary it is to be disabled in public, and the various ways we're both showing up in our own lives.

Having a plan and knowing what's right and wrong is great, but who comes up with these great ideas that actually don't help at all? Kitty and Mike talk about examples of some things that are supposed to help keep us safe, but real life doesn't always follow the plan that's been made by others.

Parkinson's is bad enough for those with the disease, but what about those around us? What impact does this have on our children, does it shape their view, affect their day to day lives? We talk to Kitty's daughter Amelia about her thoughts on living with those affected by changing health.

Emma talks about her appointment at Auckland Hospital for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), an invasive yet effective treatment for the symptoms of Parkinson's. How does she feel, and how does one cope with the prospect of such major surgery?

Contains graphic descriptions of treatments.

Kitty and Mike discuss what they have learned over the year.