Finding The Beat Once Again
(CBS)
I’ve known Pam Quinn for more than years. Our sons have been friends since elementary school. We traveled in the same “mom pack,” where it’s hardly ever about who we are, it’s all about the school, the sports, and now that they’re in high school, the nights out. So I was surprised to learn a couple of years after we met, that she had Parkinson’s disease, a debilitating movement disorder. At the time she was a professional dancer and was moving into a more lucrative career as a personal trainer. So she seemed to be managing the symptoms well. Turns out she was working hard at doing just that.
Pam had spent most of her life as a dancer, and describes the change in her life when diagnosed as “profoundly shattering.” She told us, “Dance is how I earned my living, but even more essential it was how I knew myself, and how I viewed myself.”
