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Now Blogging: Google Cofounder Sergey Brin

Search Engine Land Thu, 18 Sep 2008 2:59 PM PDT

Sergey Brin becomes the first of Google's three major executives to begin blogging. Spotted via TechCrunch , his blog at too.blogspot.com covers today his personal experience of being at risk for Parkinson's Disease. In his first post , he explains the name of his blog: Click to continue reading...

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Thursday, September 18, 2008

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For more than 20 years, my mother has worked with computers at NASA. So, when she developed a pain in her hands the diagnosis seemed easy -- Repetitive Stress Injury. Except that it wasn't so easy. As her mysterious symptoms progressed it varied -- RSI, fibromyalgia (unexplained pain), Lyme Disease, and so forth. It was only after visits to many specialists over a number of years that the diagnosis settled -- Parkinson's Disease. Since there is no clear test for Parkinson's -- it is defined by its symptoms -- we only grew certain as those symptoms developed and as her medications began to alleviate them