Jumping to the Skies: Additional Lessons from Parkinson's Disease - Paperback

by Allan Hugh Cole (Author), Davis Phinney (Foreword by)

This book recounts the author's experience of living with young-onset Parkinson's disease. He writes with candor, vulnerability, and humor, revealing how Parkinson's has prompted his experiences of deeper understanding and a greater zest for life, as well as more wisdom, gratitude, and a mindful approach to living in the moment. He demonstrates how an incurable illness, despite its challenges, can be full of meaning, purpose, and happiness, and how sharing one's personal hardships may enrich one's own life as well as the lives of others.

Author Biography

Allan Hugh Cole Jr. is dean and the Bert Kruger Smith Centennial Professor in Social Work in the Steve Hicks School of Social Work at The University of Texas at Austin. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2016 at the age of forty-eight. The author or editor of many books, he writes regularly for his blog, PD WISE (pdwise.com), and for other national and international outlets on living well with Parkinson's.