The idea that neurosurgery might restore something of Stuart's self took a while to emerge.

It was as if he were a statue on a plinth, staring out through a face of stone - one that was fixed like a mask of Greek tragedy. He was taking eight tablets of the Parkinson's drug Levodopa, along with as many as 21 other pills a day, but the periods of relief were getting shorter. Now, as Glenys looked on, Stuart found himself looking expressionlessly back at her. During the 1970s, he had played Jesus in the Chester mystery plays, and his wife, Glenys, had dubbed him 'the first bald Christ'. It was a drastic transformation for a man who used to love amateur dramatics. Stuart found that, because he could no longer will his face or voice to form familiar expressions, he himself was being diminished. As a brain disease, Parkinson's operates between the 'secondary effects' on the self that any physical illness may have (cancer will change the way you feel) and the 'primary effects' of a psychiatric illness that directly distorts perception and cognition. At first it was a relief to know that what was happening had an explanation that it wasn't 'all in the mind'.Īfter Stuart's retirement, however, his symptoms began to creep over the border from the physical into the psychological. A referral to the Institute of Neurology in Queen's Square, London, led to medication that alleviated the initial constrictions. Rather than the shaking symptoms of the disease, he had the freezing ones.

You will travel to these abyss that have long been reduced to purgatory on earth, and you will fight with hateful monsters.At first Stuart did his own research, ticking off symptoms from what he describes as the 'à la carte Parkinson's menu'. The former kingdom of gods where the lava was billowing, the lost city after the nuclear war, the swamp planet invaded by the interstellar colonists. You can hold up to 4 weapons at the same time! Each weapon can be upgraded, choose one of up to 6 routes and evolve it into a powerful artifact! In the abyss, you will face thousands of abominable monsters simultaneously, and they are endless and seemingly endless! There is no need to be afraid, although there is no way to retreat, the artifact in your hand is powerful, and the bullet command room can annihilate a large number of enemies. You will play the role of a heroic spirit resurrected from the dead, accept the entrustment of the God of Chaos, and once again enter the terrifying abyss that has long been occupied by demons and monsters!

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