Finding Parkinson's: Doing Battle with my Brain by C. David Thomas

Promo Material: "This book is the result of David being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 2015. The cause of this is most likely his exposure to the deadly defoliant Agent Orange while stationed in Pleiku, South Vietnam in 1969-70.
“In this book he has combined selfies, MRI images of his brain and lithographs he made mostly in the 1980s. … It also contains two essays by Dan Monroe, retired Director of the Peabody Essex Museum and one by Dr. David Rose, from Harvard School of Education.
“David Thomas has also written an essay about how this has effected him and his family and friends”
C. David Thomas essay excerpt: “In 2015, I went to my primary care doctor because I was feeling increasingly confused by what was happening to my body. I lost my sense of taste and smell many years before but now I began dragging my feet, walking like a duck and my handwriting was becoming smaller and smaller. I put all of these symptoms into www.ebmd.com and it came up that I had a 90% chance of having Parkinson’s disease …
“My life since my diagnosis has been one of day-to-day uncertainty about my cognitive and physical changes. The most difficult thing about having this disease is the uncertainty of the number and type of symptoms I may develop and the speed and intensity of the increase of symptoms. …”