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-----Original Message----- From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>; [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 2:13 PM Subject: spinal stenosis >my mother has been bedridden for ten years with diagnosis of spinal stenosis. >i' have pd, and/but i think i look, act just as my mother did in her early >days of deterioration. my neur says her problem is very different from mine. >ironically she was seen in his office 11 years ago so he has her records. she >now lives in a nursing home in another state; i've written to her m.d. >questioning whether a regimen of sinemet would be worth trying but he poohs >me. i've also spoken with the nurse. my mother has a "jerky leg", no muscle >tone,use, torticollis, difficulty swallowing. i suspect she is beyond help >now, but i wonder if i have spinal stenosis too. mostly i'm worried about the >future for my children. >nancy spires >