Re: Hello and Help...

[Bill and Lenore Olson <drwho@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas Vukson-Van Beek <DougV@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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!! < drwho@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>/
69/dx1983/
its getting tougher/PTL anyway!Bill Olson

> Doug Vukson-Van Beek
> Dougv@xxxxxxxxx
> www.gryph.com
>
> p.s. I like weigh in on the Blueberry question in pancakes, no
spinach.....
>