By Robert McCool
As you may know, I was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease recently. With the proper medications most of my symptoms have gone into remission, with a few exceptions. I still find it hard to swallow without choking, I sometimes have a tipsy way of walking that requires a cane, and my hands don't always do what I want them to, so I drop things.
But the worst symptom is the one which refuses to go away without some strong additional medication that I'd rather not use. That is my persistent insomnia.
Back in the misty, shrouded past of 1994 Stephen King published a weighty novel of 787 pages titled “Insomnia” (A Viking book published by the Penguin Group, ISBN 0-670-85503-0). That book means something to me and my condition that it didn't before.
