Re: FW: Parkinson Info. / ps

[Kathryn Saupp <kathrynsaupp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You are soo right!


-----Original Message-----
From: janet paterson <janet313@xxxxxxxxxxx>;
owner-parkinsn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <owner-parkinsn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, June 25, 1999 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: FW: Parkinson Info. / ps


>ooops
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>forgot to comment on this:
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>>1) At this stage of Parkinson his body has become very rigid. He cannot
>>>walk out of bed. Also he is unable to intake food naturally due to
>>>rigidity of muscles in the throat. He has to be fed via nasal path. We
>>>think that due to pnuemonia Parkinson might have been aggravated. Could
>>>Parkinson affect throat muscles?...
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>1. he sounds badly undermedicated in levodopa
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>2. parkinson's affects all muscles
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>3. an illness can aggravate pd symptoms temporarily
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>4. other medications can interfere with levodopa
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>5. pd does not generally change rapidly
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>6. please make sure that his regular pd doctor is involved
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>there, but for grace, go i
>your father is my pd cyber-sibling!
>look out for him [for me]
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>janet
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>janet paterson
>52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset
>PO Box 171  Almonte  Ontario  K0A 1A0  Canada
>a new voice 
>janet313@xxxxxxxxxxx