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You are a good daughter and have my sympathy. What is his medication and what are the dossages? David >From: "(Sherry) (Bowie)" <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: New Subscriber >Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 03:16:34 EDT > >I am a 36 year old woman from Louisiana, married with three children. My >dad was officially diagnosed with Parkinson's about two and a half years >ago. >Looking back we think he probably had it for years before the diagnosis. >Until about seven months ago he was getting around (slowly). It took him >a long >time to walk from point A to point B but he got there. Around Christmas >he >got gout, which he has battled ever since I can remember. He started >having >difficulty walking and was told to take it easy. To make a very long >story >short, he got over the gout and has had very few days where he can walk. >He >will go for weeks without walking (even getting to the bathroom is hard) >and >then he'll have a day where he can walk all over the place. But it's >always >short lived. He basically is confined to a wheelchair and his bedroom >where >his chair sits right by his bed. My mom has pulled every muscle in her >body >trying to pull him up, get him to the bathroom, etc... Now, he is >hallucinating, and talking crazy. He knows who we are but comes up with >all this >weird stuff he thinks has happened. He's begun throwing things, even >busting >out a window. If you only knew what a kind, meek man my daddy was you >would >understand that this is totally opposite to how he is. He has a good >Parkinson's doctor but I don't know if he is telling us everything we >should expect. >We're not sure if it's his meds that are making him do all this or if it >is >part of the disease. The doctor seems to only address issues as they come >up. My mother is about to lose her sanity and my sister and I are >heartbroken. > Can someone tell me if it's really a tradeoff as I heard somewhere - >either >he can be mobile or sane but not both at the same time? Any help would be >appreciated. >Thanks, >Sherry > >sherry > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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