Good luck with your surgery, Murray. Please let us know how things go for you - I'm sure that other folks with Camptocormia will benefit from your posts. --------- God bless Mary Ann (CG Jamie 68/28 with PD, died 11/20/07) > Looks like spinal surgery to remedy my camptocormia. Spinal surgeon here > says that there have been successful surgical procedures in Toronto but > that there are definite risks. It is rather a major surgery and is > fraught with peril. But I may roll the dice as my quality of life has > deteriorated dramatically. > > Camptocormia keeps me bent over while standing or walking. This has a > drastic side effect of crushing my lungs for which I am using three > puffers. And lungs are a perquisite of life. If you can't breathe easily, > it impacts on other aspects of life. > > Anyway, I said I would put up posts every month or so in the hopes of > hearing from others with the same PD complication. Decision time for me > will come probably this fall or winter. > > Murray > Montreal, Canada > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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