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My mom never gambled in her life. She now squanders just about every excess penny (about $100 per month) on gambling junkets to San Diego. Busloads of little old ladies are deposited at casinos offering free lunch and cocktails. My mom, who no longer has the attention span to read for more than ten minutes, spends eight hours straight losing quarters in slot machines without nodding off, becoming distracted or losing interest. It's truly shocking! And she can't afford to do it. She has no savings and barely survives on Social Security and the interest from her one remaining CD. If this keeps up, she'll probably dip into the CD and find herself unable to make her monthly expenses. It's definitely the drugs. This has all happened in the past ten months since they put her on Requip and Sinemet. If she weren't so incredibly poor, it wouldn't matter if she lost $100 a month. But that's the only spare income she has to her name. She gets annoyed when I question her about it, insisting it's the only pleasure left in her life. Who am I to question her? Someone who cares deeply. I used to send her money each month so she could buy special food items or wardrobe essentials. Now I send her Trader Joe's gift certificates in $20 increments, one every few weeks. That way, she can't buy something cheap, pocket the change, and gamble it all away. The disease is horrible enough. But the side effects are potentially ruinous as well. Very sad. Greyling -----Original Message----- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of M.Schild Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 11:13 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: chemicals > I suspect you'd have to have an existing tendency towards gambling.... Apparently not. The few who have written about this problem say they never had any gambling tendencies before taking the drugs Maryse cg John 76,16 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn