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----- Original Message ----- From: Douglas Vukson-Van Beek <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, December 04, 1999 7:40 PM Subject: Hello and Help... > Hello everyone. 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. . > > 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..... > I think that you have a medication problem!! < [log in to unmask]>/ 69/dx1983/ its getting tougher/PTL anyway!Bill Olson > 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..... >