Hi !

    After reading several  recent posts regarding ER and PD, I feel I must
add my very recent experience.
       Without going into the details and reasons for admission, here is how
it went with me.  I had had  previous hospitable experience so I was a bit
savvy RE:PD.

  I told them immediately that I had PD and asked if they knew about PD.
Then I explained about  Eldepryl and the interaction with certain meds.
  The admitting doctor sent his assistants one at a time as he was delayed
and extremely busy that Friday afternoon.  I repeated my story re:Pd etc to
each
medic that came in.
In the meantime Internist's requests for lab tests were performed, X-Rays of
lungs and belly taken, EKG performed. IV setup,etc  and I was set  in a
curtained-off  area
waiting to be admitted to the hospital.  My husband was with me all the
while. The emergency room  chief physician came by periodically to assure us
that I would be
admitted  soon.
 Careful; data was taken as to my Parkie meds etc...and doctors and  nurses
dropped by to see if we were OK.
It was a long wait
   I can't say we enjoyed it. ..we were pretty tired ...and frustrated....by
the time we were admited to hospital per se.
but I must admit that under the circumstances  it was a pretty fine
experience.
 This happened two weeks ago at Columbia-Presbyterian Med. Cent. in New York
City
 I'm now home recuperating and feeling pretty great !
    [log in to unmask]  (Mary Manfredi   fourscore plus dx 18)

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