So anyone have any experience dealing with someone who had or has had Parkinson's? My mum was diagnosed with it about 4 years ago. I think I always thought of Muhammed Ali or Michael J Fox when I thought about Parkinson's, but it can be so different. My mum doesn't have the shakey thing they have, but is all hunched over and her voice has just withered away. And more recently is more tearful than she's ever been before. I always thought it was a physical disease, but it has started to change her personality. Weird, and really hard for my dad who is her carer.
Anyway, probably sharing too much and too serious for this time of day, but anyway....
My dad has been battling this disease for almost a decade now, sad because it slowly wastes a person away. He is frail, shakey and is mostly out of his mind because of the medication (halucinations, paranoia, etc).
Sorry to hear that Gbus.
I really had no idea, until today, about the paranoia and delusions. My mum's so stubborn too, that she simply refuses to give up normal life, despite all common sense. I think she might still be driving, even though she can barely see over the steering wheel she's so hunched over. And she's losing the ability to judge or manage her time, which I kind of put down to getting older, but apparently my dad has terrible difficulty getting her to stop farting around and go to bed at a reasonable hour.
It's weird, because my family are all in England, and therefore I don't see a lot of this stuff, but I guess I'll see it more and more as time goes on.
Bob Hoskins
Poor chap
Poor Bob. Horrible fucking disease.