If anyone had asked me five years ago whether I could ever envision taking boxing lessons, I probably would have snorted in derision. Me? Boxing lessons? Mind you, if anyone had asked me five years ago whether I could envision having Parkinson’s disease, I probably would have dismissed that, too.
But here I am, with Parkinson’s. And here I am, taking boxing lessons.
“You? Boxing lessons?” scoffed some friends and family members when I proudly displayed my brand-new Everlast gloves and rolls of tape. They were not being rude, simply disbelieving, as they know me to be skilled in the culinary arts – a lifelong passion – and I had shown absolutely no interest or aptitude in the martial arts before.
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