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My (PD) brother went into the hospital with aspiration pneumonia and has been put back into the nursing home after taking about 2 weeks in the hospital for recuperation. He has a feeding tube (PEG) in his stomach. It was suspected the nursing home had been letting him lay down during feeding. He seems to be getting well now. John is about 1000 miles from me. When I left him in April he was walking with assistance and we had fun walking around the nursing home. Since that time he has not walked and when he went to see a PD DR recently the DR said he may not be able to walk again because his ligaments had formed permanently and could not stretch now. (Sorry about the vagueness but I can't recall what his wife said exactly when she took him to the DR). While he was in the hospital the DR found a rare blood disease that affects the heart. The disease is called Amaloid (I hope that is the correct spelling). I tried to look this up but could not find much on it. Does anybody know about this disease and how it may affect PD patients?? Thank you, Larry Wilson Georgia ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn