didn‘t even request sample chapters, Bill Schmalfeldt decided to take matters into his own hands. Reaching into his own pocket, he has self-published his story and is donating 100 percent of the author‘s proceeds from the book‘s sale to help find a cure for this crippling, degenerative neurological disease. ―No Doorway Wide Enough‖ is Schmalfeldt‘s personal story about living with a neurological disease that afflicts over a million Americans. 100 percent of the author proceeds will be donated to the National Parkinson Foundation and the Charles DBS Research Fund at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. ―I was diagnosed at an NPF clinic in Miami and Vanderbilt‘s Neurology Department is looking to expand their DBS clinical trial from its current 30 patients to a nationwide trial involving hundreds, if not thousands of folks like me. I felt I should help any way I could,‖ Schmalfeldt said. ―The title comes from my days as a Navy hospital corpsman at the former U.S. Navy Home in Gulfport, Ms.,‖ the 55-year old author said. ―I used to wonder why it was that some of the older folks tended to stop and ‗size up‘ a doorway before walking through. I did a spoton impression of this effect for my friends at parties. Got lots of laughs. Now I know the reason for it.‖
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