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Dyskinesia is usually the whole body and a movement like a wave. Often it comes from too much dopamine (too much of the Parkinsons meds). Freezing up is a later stage of Parkinsons but preceded by very small steps, shuffling phase. Her gait doesn't suggest late Parkinsons at all. Not even early. To check I watched her recorded speech from NY and my conclusion is if she has Parkinsons per se, she is very early and will live with it for a decade or two or three and die of something else. But my conclusion is it is not, and that it is/was more serioius.

Back at the end of her term as SOS she had some sort of brain injury causing double vision requiring prism glasses and a variety of other symptoms. The other episodes suggest something is wrong. It is also pretty clearly neurological like Parkinsons. Falls can be caused by Parkinsons and perhaps by the meds (dyskinesia). But since there are no other symptoms in my viewing of her speech from a couple of days ago, I would guess the falls are from seizures. The sack of potatoes into the van looked like a seizure.

[EVO X]

If it was a Parkinson dyskinesia event, she is likely somewhere around stage 3. Literature suggests managing meds is a work in progress at that stage. The busy campaign forced her to push the limits so some of the more severe symptoms popped up occasionally. Now that she is just making speeches, she can show up in public on her terms. It seems to me she is getting worse with all the recent falls and injuries.