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hi all At 18:48 2001/02/19 -0800, Murray Charters wrote, in part: >BROADVIEW HOUSE FIRE KILLS HUSBAND AND WIFE >By Vanessa Gezari >Tribune Staff Writer >February 19, 2001 >... On Sunday morning, Arthur Kuettler, 82, and his >80-year-old wife collapsed in their living room as they >tried to get out of the house when a fire started in >their basement, firefighters said. Relatives say Arthur >Kuettler, a retired engineer, was trying to help his wife, >who had Parkinson's disease and had trouble moving. ... >the Kuettlers died ... murray, you've been reading my mind! this sad story jumped out at me two people lost their lives tragically and possibly needlessly... and i live alone... my off periods have become really really OFF and can appear almost instantaneously: i can barely turn over in bed, i cannot write, i cannot type, i cannot do up my shoelaces, i can shuffle maybe one step per 30 seconds max and if i am at all emotional, i slow down even more! viz: a couple of weeks ago when i put the kettle on to boil to make coffee i got on the computer, forgot about the kettle, and it boiled dry... this could have been calamitous, since i could not smell the burning odour i managed to shuffle over to the stove to turn off the red hot burner, but my oh my it took a long time to get there! and my heart was in my mouth the whole time! strangely enough, the apartment i live in was renovated completely two years ago due to a fire in the building next door where a young couple died. what is the answer to this potential danger for parkies? a wheelchair? i maybe could manage one when i'm 'off', if it were electric, but then i'd have to be living in a wheel chair accessible apartment, which this one isn't. this aspect of my habitat is coming to the fore since i am in the midst of discussing my requirements with the local municipal and county home care support folks janet janet paterson, an akinetic rigid subtype parkie 53 now / 44 dx cd / 43 onset cd / 41 dx pd / 37 onset pd TEL: 613 256 8340 SMAIL: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada EMAIL: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/