A special thank you to our family in this fight for a Parkinson’s cure, Barbara Salsberg Mathews. This illustration will be part of a new book through Parkinson’s Europe, ‘Harvesting Joy: Things people with Parkinson’s do to be at our best’. Sponsored by Parkinson’s Europe, https://
Harvesting Joy is looking after my 7 grandchildren. We love to read together, craft together, play in the parks together and just be together! How lucky am I to have them all in one mile radius!!! Pam Barnes, Cheshire, England, Diagnosed in 2019 at age 64
Harvesting joy was being with her 3 grandkids. Sharon said she was fighting to be at her granddaughter, Brooke’s wedding someday. Sadly, she didn’t make it, but she fought like a warrior every day.
Sharon Riff Ackerman
Diagnosed in 2002 at age 51. She passed at age 69 in 2020
Originally from Brooklyn, NY. moved to Florida in 1995
Submitted by Sharon’s son, Dr. George Ackerman