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Sherry, how old is your Dad? Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "(Sherry) (Bowie)" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 12:16 AM Subject: New Subscriber >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