Does anyone have experience with this term?....Nothing in the archive is associated with it. It is for Sara Byron. >>From: John Cottingham >>To: Byron, Sara >>Subject: Re: ARCHIVE SEARCH >>Date: Thursday, July 25, 1996 7:59AM >> >>At , you wrote: >>> >>> >>>I would like messages on "Parkinson's crisis" >>> >>> >> >>Sara, have been a little late in responding due to the fact the term >>"Parkinson's crisis" is to vague to search for something particular. >> >>If you could send me a little story of the circumstances surrounding the >>term "Parkinson's crisis", I could do a better job of searching. > >John, > >Sorry for the vagueness. My father had an episode last week, which was >diagnosed as a Parkinson's crisis. Of course I knew it was a crisis for our > >family, but I thought the medical specialists were referring to a syndrome >called Parkinson's crisis. Perhaps I was mistaken. I wanted to find our >more about them - and what else to expect during a Parkinson's crisis state. > >What happened was that Dad was napping in his recliner. It was time for >feeding, and my sister couldn't wake him. She fed him anyway, and then a >little while later she realized that he had not been to the bathroom for >awhile and she tried to wake him again. Nothing she did would wake him. > she tried to inflict a little pain to get him going - like squeezing his >toes and poking his hand with her finger nails to no avail. When she tried >to move him he was absolutely limp, like a rag doll - which is incredibly >unusual. She noted that he was breathing and had a pulse. She yelled in >his ear - and then asked him to squeeze her hand if he could hear her. She >did feel a barely perceptible squeeze. She got my Mom and other sister and >then pulled him to a standing position - he was maneuvered/walked to the >toilet with no stiffness, but he still was unable to open his eyes, or >speak. (When we walk him usually one person holds his arm, one person pulls > >his walker forward, and one person is kneeling on the floor moving his legs >with him. Sometimes moving his legs is like pulling on iron posts that have > >been pounded into the ground. This time his legs were loose and he skimmed >across the carpet!) > >After emptying an incredible amount of liquid from his bladder, and sitting >upright for awhile he was able to open his eyes. Obviously this scared >everyone and we called our home health nurse who said that this was a >"Parkinson's crisis" state - lots of people do this. > >John, sometimes when Dad is sleeping he has what we call mini-seizures, >where his eyes roll back and his eyes and arms jerk up uncontrollably - but >this was different - he was so loose! > >SO, that's what I was searching for - ever heard anything like that - Maybe >I'll just post this and see if I get any responses. I always assume that >you all know everything about PD, and I don't want to waste your time or be > >redundant, so I try to search the archives first. It was easier before when > >I could write a script - but I certainly do appreciate the time and effort >that it takes you and BArbara to do all this. Since I'm used to cryptic >programming error messages - it's great to have someone write back and say - > >"hey what did you mean?!" > >By the way, my Dad is in the later stage of PD. He is 79, and was diagnosed > >in about 1969 - its hard to remember exactly when we first found out. His >symptoms have progressed slowly - so we've been lucky. > >Sara Byron >daughter of Richard Byron, 79/PD since 1969. > > > John Cottingham To search the Parkinsn archive, send search requests to [log in to unmask] with Archive Search as the subject. LibraryH Searches of the Subject: line, From: line and Body are possible. Look for "Revised Current Topics...." message [log in to unmask] for Articles and Studies available by e-mail.