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Does your mom use Nutrasweet, or Equal, or products that contain it? Diet sodas are at least one item that does. Anyway there was a big deal on here about many bad effects of this sweetener, and they reccommended to stop using it for 60 days and see what happens, I have been off it for awhile and I started remembering things from the past that i never realized I had forgotten. I do not have PD, or any major disease, I am 53 years old, I just figured the memory loss goes with getting older. Now I believe otherwise. I do not have any interest in putting Eqal out of business, I use to think it was a great product. I have also lost a few pounds since I stopped using it which is strange, since i use sugar instead! [OO] LOOKING FOR RADIOS! Ken Becker [log in to unmask] On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, NB wrote: > My mother, who has Parkinson's, loves to play Bridge. However, she's > reached the stage where it is hard to hold the cards. > > If you have a resource for some kind of appliance or device to hold a hand > of cards, please send me email: > > [log in to unmask] > > (I get so much mail, I don't always have time to read through all the > Parkinsn digests, so email to my address would be faster.) > > Thank you! > > By the way, thanks for all your previous suggestions. She is doing a bit > better. She sent for the forms to apply for subsidizing her medications, > and her doctor is helping her fill them out, so that will help. > > I am worried a bit about her memory, though. I asked her to find our photo > album from when the family attended the New York World's Fair (my boyfriend > also went, and he wanted to see our pictures). > > She said, "The New York World's Fair? Did we go there? We did?" She > doesn't remember it at all. > > I think it was in 1964. > > It really threw me, because this is not the first time she has not > remembered some big family outing or trip. > > I suppose some of this is due to the medications, and some due to old age. > But it seems scary that her memories are disappearing. > > NB >