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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