“It was the seatbelt that actually came across my chest and severed my arm.” – Rick Allen

6 years after joining the band, a dreadful car accident on the New year’s eve of 1984, took away his left arm. Doctors initially reattached the arm but were forced to remove later as the infection set in. Amazingly, 2 years later the band released their 4th album “Hysteria” with Rick still on drums. His courage and determination refused to let this tragedy ruin his career and eventually led to the custom-built drum kit that he still plays today. Now, Rick’s left foot does the job that his left arm used to by utilizing a series of pedals.

The thought of being no more able to play the drums initially set in as hopelessness which he later turned to a motivation because he didn’t accept to be called “Ex-drummer” of Def Leppard. His disability doesn’t hinder his ability to play drums. He runs several side projects and charity works and it was with a single arm he earned him the respect of “Thunder God”.

Rick should not only be an inspiration to thousands of drummers of this generation but also to the people living with disability. Disability is no barrier for the things you love to do.

Adolf hitler

• irritable bowel syndrome,
• skin lesions,
• irregular heartbeat,
• Parkinson’s disease,
• syphilis,
• and a strongly suggested addiction to methamphetamine.

Newsreels of Hitler show he had tremors in his hand and a shuffling walk (also a symptom of tertiary syphilis) which began before the war and continued to worsen until the end of his life. Apparently, a scholar found some little known footage of Hitler with his left hand trembling in a way characteristic of Parkinson’s.  Further analysis of footage revealed that before he was about 43, he usually used both hands to gesticulate, buf after that, the left hand was kept down and controlled during all public performances.  In those days, there were no useful drugs available and so he would have known he was going to die.

SOme historians feel this may have contributed to Hitler’s rush to attack Russia and then as the disease progressed it could account for some of his later bad military decisions.   Of course his addiction to amphetamines and intake of other weird drugs given to him might also have contributed.   It is suspected he was probably physically near death anyway by the time he commited suicide.

Hitler was treated by his personal physician, Dr Theo Morrell. Theo Morell was well known in Germany for his unconventional, holistic and alternative treatments. Dr Morell kept very detailed diaries of his treatment of Hitler’s Parkinson’s Disease.Morell treated Hitler with a drug agent that was commonly used in 1945, although Morell is viewed as an unreliable doctor by most historians and any diagnoses he may have made are subject to doubt.

A more reliable doctor, Ernst-Günther Schenck, who worked at an emergency casualty station in the Reich Chancellery during April 1945, also claimed Hitler might have Parkinson’s disease. However, Schenck only saw Hitler briefly on two occasions and, by his own admission, was extremely exhausted and dazed during these meetings.

One of the Abstract says “Adolf Hitler had Parkinson symptoms in 1934, at age 45 years. He may have had transient symptoms in 1923, at age 34 years. Young-onset parkinsonism, during the 1920s, favored a diagnosis of post-encephalitic rather than idiopathic parkinsonism. Hitler had oculogyric crises, phenomena only associated with post-encephalitic parkinsonism. In addition, he had dystonic facial spasms, palilalia and a sleep disorder, phenomena more likely to be associated with post-encephalitic than idiopathic parkinsonism. In November 1918, at age 29 years, Hitler may have had von Economo’s encephalitis, while he was a patient in a hospital, recovering from poison gas”

Another media claims “Hitler had Parkinson’s disease which gave him a significant tremor in his left hand which was censored in the German media.”

WHAT IS PARKINSON’s DISEASE?

John Forbes Nash, Nobel prize winner

A Beautiful Mind

is  one of the all time best movie based on lifestory of Famous Novel Prize winning Economist John F. Nash. It was released in  2001 . John Forbes Nash, Jr.,(born June 13, 1928) was a Nobel Laureate in Economics.

Directed by Ron Howard and written by Akiva Goldsmanand inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated  book of the same name by Sylvia  Nasar.

The story begins in the early years of a young schizophrenic prodigy named John Nash. Early in the movie, Nash begins developing paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on his wife and friends.

Russel Crowe as usual has given his most astonishing perfromance. Schizophrenia has been beautifully illustrated in the Movie ‘A Beautiful Mind.’

Details on the movie : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268978/

About Joh Nash: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html

Short bio:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash,_Jr.

Front of the Class

This movie is based on Brad Cohen’s best-selling and award-winning autobiographical book, “Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had“, co-authored with Lisa Wysocky which describes Cohen’s experiences of growing up with tourette syndrome (TS).

About the movie

Starring Characters

• Jimmy Wolk as present-day Brad Cohen
• Dominic Scott Cohen as Young Brad Cohen
• Treat Williams as Norman Cohen
• Sarah Drew as Nancy Lazarus
• Kathleen York as Diane
• Joe Chrest as Jim Ovbey
• Patricia Heaton as Ellen Cohen
• Johnny Pacar as Jeff
• Charles Henry Wyson as Young Jeff
• Charlie Finn as Ron
• Dianne Butler as Hilarie Straka
• Helen Ingebritsen as Susan
• Laura Whyte as Brenda

Short Synopsis:

A Tourette Syndrome sufferer who hated school while growing up strives to become the teacher he never had in this inspirational Hallmark Hall of Fame drama. As a young boy, Brad began making off noises – impulsive noises that were impossible to suppress. As a result, Brad was tormented by his classmates, and accused by his teachers of intentionally disrupting class. It wasn’t long before Brad started to hate school, but then an understanding principal offered just the kind of encouragement the struggling boy needed to turn his life around. Thanks to the good will of one sympathetic educator, Brad decided to become the kind of teacher who favored patience and kindness over authority and control. After being rejected by twenty-four schools, Brad was finally given the opportunity to prove his true worth as a teacher. This is the story of a man who relied on resilience and determination to get through life, and who devoted his existence to helping others like him overcome incredible odds.

– Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Hallmark – Front of the Class Inside Look

About Brad Cohen

Brad Cohen

Brad is an Area Lead Teacher for Cobb County Schools in Atlanta, and is responsible for teaching the teachers. Prior to that he taught 2nd grade, 3rd grade and was a technology lab teacher. Brad has served as Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Tourette Syndrome Association of Georgia. He is not only an American motivational speaker but also an award-winning teacher and author.

As a child, he was ridiculed, beaten, mocked and shunned. His mother’s encouragement and brother’s support were the key elements that kept him going.

About the disease

http://medchrome.com/major/medicine/neurology/tourette-syndrome/

To know more about the movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1292594/
To know more about the book: http://www.classperformance.com/author-books-front-of-the-class/