Two members of a Toronto new wave band behind a 1980 international hit have released new music, this time to raise awareness of Parkinson's disease.Martha Johnson and Mark Gane, wife and husband and band members of Martha and the Muffins, are pictured here in their home in Toronto. They released a new song, Slow Emotion, this week to raise awareness of Parkinson's disease. Johnson has had the disease for 23 years.
Johnson's neurologist, Dr. Alfonso Fasano, introduced her to Dwyer, another patient of his, in the hopes that the two could make a song together. After meeting, they wrote individual songs and Johnson put them together.'You see your life in a whole different way' Johnson said symptoms of the disease developed slowly before they became debilitating. First, her sense of smell disappeared. Then, it was obvious that one foot was dragging. Her family doctor sent her to a neurologist."I suppose when anyone deals with shocking news, you kind of go, this can't really be happening. But the other part of your brain is going, yeah, it's happening and this maybe it's like a sudden death, or even the birth of a baby in a positive sense.
"Sure, we can't play live anymore. But in the years where after which we decided that wasn't going to happen, we've always continued to record." "You just have to pull yourself up every time something happens," she said. "You have to be thankful for what you do have."