Hi, Thanks for the advice. Yes, I am
taking mom to see a neurologist again after she has been cleared by the
cardiologist.
Right now,she has homecare coming in 3 x
week. 3 hours Monday, 1 Wednesday and 1 on Friday. She will be
getting a physiotheraist and she is also on the list (2nd from top) for a OT to
come and assess the situation in the house. Sad that it took a bad fall
for my sister to realize that mom does need help., although mom was pretty good
at hiding her symptons from the two of us.
Yes, she does have PD. It started out with
tremors in her hands quite a while before her diagnosis. Now she shuffles when
she walks, loses her balance when she turns, bending forward more with her upper
body as she is walking, has a hard time (almost impossible) for her tto turn
over in bed never mind getting in or out. In the beginning we thought the
the tremors were only her nerves. Were we wrong!
Lateley I've noticed (neurologist also) that my
mother rarely blinks and that her facial features are not animated almost as if
they were frozen. Are these also symptons of PD? I've never come
across them in all my searches on info on PD.
Thanks to you all
Erika