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Hello everyone. I am a very new member of the group and this is my first point. I am the child of a Parkinson's Patient in Minnesota, USA. And we have come to a very difficult stage in my mom's treatment. I am hoping that someone out there as some insight for me and my family. Quick medical history: Mom, Marilyn Van Beek, was diagnosed with PD about 25 years ago, she is now 67. I am told that she is the patient taking the most medication of any patient seen at the Mayo clinic. She is confined to a Nursing Home no longer able to walk, or even get out of the wheel chair. She had the palitodomy (I am sorry about the spelling) surgery about 6 years ago on one side of the brain. The improvements from the surgery were amazing. Mom suffers mostly from rigidity. She takes cinemet (again my spelling....) every four hours. This is all that I can think of off the top of my head, if there are specifics that can help with advise please let me know. Now, the problem is that in the last 3 weeks, mom has gone from being responsive, coherent, and healthy to having hallucinations, confused, and vomiting with severe diarrhea. I do not believe these symptoms to be PD related, but people at the Nursing Home believe that they are. Any suggestions.... Please..... Doug Vukson-Van Beek [log in to unmask] www.gryph.com p.s. I like weigh in on the Blueberry question in pancakes, no spinach.....