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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2019
March of
Dimes seeks
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Contributed photo
Carol Clupny poses for a photo atop the Pyrenees mountain range in 2013. The climb was
part of a 200-mile trek across France. The Hermiston woman shares about her journeys after
being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in her soon-to-be released memoir.
Hermiston woman treks on
with Parkinson’s disease
Carol Clupny publishes
memoir
By TAMMY MALGESINI
COMMUNITY EDITOR
When Parkinson’s dis-
ease started to challenge
her active lifestyle, Carol
Clupny didn’t merely sit
down.
Shortly after being diag-
nosed with the progressive
neurological disorder, the
Hermiston woman watched
a video of a man in the
advanced stages of the dis-
ease struggle to get out of
a chair and then “freezing”
as he attempted to walk
across a room. The visions,
Clupny said, got her off her
butt and moving.
In
her
soon-to-be
released memoir, “The
Ribbon of Road Ahead:
One Woman’s Remark-
able Journey with Parkin-
son’s Disease,” Clupny
shares about what guides
her. Grabbing onto the
word ultreia, Clupny said it
comes from Latin and old
French meaning “unfailing
courage.”
“It takes courage to
live with Parkinson’s.
May I face each day with
unfailing courage,” she
explained.
As she approached her
50th birthday, Clupny
started experiencing some
troubling symptoms. In
addition to becoming very
restless, she felt like her
insides were tremoring.
“I asked my husband to
watch me and he did not
see any external move-
ments,” she said.
As time progressed, her
right eyelid twitched, fol-
lowed by the right cor-
ner of her lip and her right
pinky finger. Then, while
visiting an Orlando theme
park, Clupny noticed her
right arm wasn’t swing-
ing while she was walk-
ing. After returning home,
she couldn’t throw a ball
for the dogs and her move-
ments were slower and her
muscles tightened.
Initially treated for
stress, Clupny was referred
to a neurologist when the
symptoms didn’t subside.
The neurological evalua-
tion and a positive response
to medication resulted in a
referral to the Parkinson’s
Center of Oregon at Ore-
gon Health & Science Uni-
versity. After a battery of
tests and under the watch-
ful eye of a movement dis-
order specialist, the diagno-
sis of Parkinson’s disease
was confirmed.
Determined to do every-
thing she could to combat
the disease’s progression,
Clupny pushed herself to
be even more active. In
addition, her bucket list
— hiking the Inca trail to
Machu Picchu, trekking to
Everest Base camp, walk-
ing across Ireland, follow-
ing Hadrian’s Wall and
the pilgrimage to Santiago
de Compostela — became
more urgent.
Coming up first alpha-
betically, Clupny initially
tackled sections of the
Camino de Santiago.
“It was an incredible
experience shared with
people from all over the
world,” she said. “The his-
tory, the culture, the cama-
raderie of people sharing
the same goal was a draw
for me returning three
more times.”
When Clupny’s illegible
handwriting prevented her
from journaling, she started
a blog while on her first
Camino trek in 2012. Fol-
lowers on Clupny’s social
media pages encouraged
her to publish her story.
“My friend Nan Little
wrote, ‘Rather than perch-
ing on a pedestal as the
perfect person with Par-
kinson’s, Carol slips in the
mud and gets up laugh-
ing at herself.’ My wish
for readers of this book is
they can see hope in a dif-
ficult challenge. As I put
this book together, I saw
again and again how a pos-
itive approach influenced
myself and those around
me.”
Clupny said her faith
has been immeasurable in
regards to living with Par-
kinson’s. God, she said,
always hears her, even
when she speaks softly or
can’t find her words.
“I have a companion
beside me when I move
slow and am at the back
of the pack,” Clupny said.
“When I fall, my landing
is softened and I get help
picking myself up.”
People are invited to
meet Clupny during sev-
eral upcoming book events:
•Thursday, March 21
from 4:30-6 p.m. at The
Prodigal Son Brewery &
Pub, 230 S.E. Court Ave.,
Pendleton.
•Sunday, March 24 from
3-4:30 p.m. at Our Lady of
Angels Catholic Church,
565 W. Hermiston Ave.,
Hermiston.
•Sunday, March 31 from
2:30-4 p.m. at St Francis
Catholic Church, 722 W.
Alder St., Walla Walla.
•Monday, April 8 from
12:45-2 p.m. at Samaritan
Hospital, 801 E. Wheeler
Road,
Moses
Lake,
Washington.
•Thursday, June 20
from 7-8 p.m. at Broadway
Books, 1714 N.E. Broad-
way St., Portland.
The book is available
for presale prior to March
15 by contacting ultreia-
books@gmail.com or via
www.ultreiablog.org.
Awards honoring out-
standing nurses from Ore-
gon and southwest Wash-
ington for their care and
compassion will be pre-
sented in nearly 20
categories.
Patients,
co-workers,
supervisors, other health
professionals and friends
can
nominate
nurses
who work in such areas
as women’s health, crit-
ical care, nurse educa-
tor, mental health, sur-
gical services and more.
Presented by the March of
Dimes, nominations will
be accepted through Fri-
day, March 22. The winners
will be announced during
an awards breakfast Friday,
June 7 at the Sentinel Hotel
in downtown Portland.
For more information,
including nominating cate-
gories, go to www.marchof-
dimes.org/oregon or contact
Pansy Chang at 971-270-
2890 or pchang@marchof-
dimes.org.
Umatilla
library sets
book sale
Hardback volumes are
50 cents each and paper-
backs are 25 cents during
the upcoming book sale at
the Umatilla Public Library.
The event will be held
Thursday and Friday from
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Satur-
day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The library is located at 700
Sixth St., Umatilla.
For more information,
call 541-922-5704.
St. John’s
announces lent
services
Special weekly ser-
vices during lent are being
held at St. John’s Episcopal
Church.
The public is invited to
attend each Wednesday at
5 p.m. at 665 E. Gladys
Ave., Hermiston. In addi-
tion to the evening service,
the gatherings include a
soup and bread supper.
For
more
informa-
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Barnes at 541-567-6674 or
chuckb@eotnet.net.
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after accepting the position
of Eastern Oregon regional
economist with the Oregon
Employment Department.
Before relocating, Rich
and his wife, Harvest, and
daughter, Ariana, spent 10
years in Spokane.
A graduate of Eastern
Washington
University,
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ket of eight Eastern Ore-
gon counties. The region
encompasses approximately
40 percent of the state’s land
mass but only about 4 per-
cent of its population. Rich
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