Does anyone have experience with this term?....Nothing in the archive is
associated with it. It is for Sara Byron.


>>From: John Cottingham
>>To: Byron, Sara
>>Subject: Re: ARCHIVE SEARCH
>>Date: Thursday, July 25, 1996 7:59AM
>>
>>At , you wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>I would like messages on "Parkinson's crisis"
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Sara, have been a little late in responding due to the fact the term
>>"Parkinson's crisis" is to vague to search for something particular.
>>
>>If you could send me a little story of the circumstances surrounding the
>>term "Parkinson's crisis", I could do a better job of searching.
>
>John,
>
>Sorry for the vagueness.  My father had an episode last week, which was
>diagnosed as a Parkinson's crisis.  Of course I knew it was a crisis for our
>
>family, but I thought the medical specialists were referring to a syndrome
>called Parkinson's crisis.  Perhaps I was mistaken.  I wanted to find our
>more about them - and what else to expect during a Parkinson's crisis state.
>
>What happened was that Dad was napping in his recliner.  It was time for
>feeding, and my sister couldn't wake him.  She fed him anyway, and then a
>little while later she realized that he had not been to the bathroom for
>awhile and she tried to wake him again.  Nothing she did would wake him.
> she tried to inflict a little pain to get him going - like squeezing his
>toes and poking his hand with her finger nails to no avail.  When she tried
>to move him he was absolutely limp, like a rag doll - which is incredibly
>unusual.  She noted that he was breathing and had a pulse.  She yelled in
>his ear - and then asked him to squeeze her hand if he could hear her.  She
>did feel a barely perceptible squeeze.  She got my Mom and other sister and
>then pulled him to a standing position  - he was maneuvered/walked to the
>toilet with no stiffness, but he still was unable to open his eyes, or
>speak.  (When we walk him usually one person holds his arm, one person pulls
>
>his walker forward, and one person is kneeling on the floor moving his legs
>with him.  Sometimes moving his legs is like pulling on iron posts that have
>
>been pounded into the ground.  This time his legs were loose and he skimmed
>across the carpet!)
>
>After emptying an incredible amount of liquid from his bladder, and sitting
>upright for awhile he was able to open his eyes.   Obviously this scared
>everyone and we called our home health nurse who said that this was a
>"Parkinson's crisis" state - lots of people do this.
>
>John, sometimes when Dad is sleeping he has what we call mini-seizures,
>where his eyes roll back and his eyes and arms jerk up uncontrollably - but
>this was different - he was so loose!
>
>SO, that's what I was searching for - ever heard anything like that - Maybe
>I'll just post this and see if I get any responses.  I always assume that
>you all know everything about  PD, and I don't want to waste your time or be
>
>redundant, so I try to search the archives first.  It was easier before when
>
>I could write a script - but I certainly do appreciate the time and effort
>that it takes you and BArbara to do all this.  Since I'm used to cryptic
>programming error messages - it's great to have someone write back and say -
>
>"hey what did you mean?!"
>
>By the way, my Dad is in the later stage of PD.  He is 79, and was diagnosed
>
>in about 1969 - its hard to remember exactly when we first found out.  His
>symptoms have progressed slowly - so we've been lucky.
>
>Sara Byron
>daughter of Richard Byron, 79/PD since 1969.
>
>
>
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