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hello
everybody seven years
ago I felt the skies falling on
me I walked with a colleague of mine in
University Ali and he told
me rafy you look weird your left side is
lower than your right side and your left
hand doesn't Sak as you go
along please go and be checked in the
doctor
office I told him I felt recently that
I'm walking
slower as if I'm getting old in one day
my steps are smaller my ting became
smaller and I have trouble getting out
of my
car so I'm going to rush to my neighbor
is a neurologist we checked this
evening I went to the
neurologist and after a few minutes that
he saw me he told me following Rafi I
have good news and bad news for you the
good news are that you're going to have
five more years of normal leaving but
afterwards you'll need some new
thing I was
shocked what would you do if you hear
news that you have another five years of
normal
living I was in State of Shock and I
went back home I didn't tell anybody I
entered to a period of denial for two
years I worked and researched as if I LC
but one day I looked at the mirror and
said Rafi you must fight the disease the
disease is progressing sooner or later
you'll be
incapacitated I went to the computer
looked in the what can I do
besides the medications that I get from
Parkinson what I tried I tried swimming
walking I chi chong but in I recall that
I like to see dancing people in dancing
the star and maybe I will dance and this
would be my sporting activity
because all the sporting activities so
far that I did I was an Harvard graduate
student and I went to Boston Celtics
game I used to clap my hands I would
like now to be a dancer I told myself
rather than being a pistan disease
patient so I went to a dance class and
some young and old people dancing cha
chaa Latin dance and I'm trying to
follow them but my feet couldn't be
lifted from the ground I was sort of
freezing and they couldn't follow them
and the guy near by me named UI told me
rfy it would take miles and miles of Cha
Cha Cha till you do it right practice is
my middle name I I like challenges so I
said to M I'm going to be denser rather
than be the patient
what I found in dancing is that
every requirement from a dancer is just
the opposite for symptoms of Parkinson
disease for example in Parkinson disease
I us used to walk like this small steps
and bend it over but when you become
dencer you have to stand tall upright
and with right shoulders and when you
move your end you have to fill up the
space and be the king of the dancing
floor everything is just the opposite
for example you had small steps before
you start dancing and now you can do
large one you can do any step that you
want you can do the
Chacha and you like one two three CH
one three CH one I like to dance as you
see
I love
them it got me out of the Parkinson
disease that I have and now if you so
like to see me dancing I'd like to
invite my best friend Anna ronov to
dance with
me she is the from daning for the
staff this with
me
thankful
you're going to Skyfall since I was
notified by the doctor that that pistan
disease the sky was falling on
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me this is the
end hold your breath and count to
10 feel the earth move and
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then hear my heart
burst
again for this is the
end I've drowned and dream this
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moment so overo I
today sweep the way I'm
sto Let the Sky
Fall when it
crumbles we will stand
down face it all together that the Sky
Fall when it
crumbles we will stand down our facing
all together
sky that
skyfold skyfold is where we
start Thousand Miles and po
apart where world cide and days are dark
you may have my number you can say my
name but you'll never have my
heart and crumble
we will stand
to face it all together let the Sky
Fall when we
crumble we will stand down face it all
together and
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