[palmer]

She has health problems. PD is not that variable that she could get up a flight of stairs on any day, unless she very early PD. In that case life expectancy is 10-20 years (or more) and good cognitive functoning is 10 years or more. The 9-11 collapse was some sort of siezure, and more recent falls could be the same. PD causes falls too, but it causes many other symptoms. She doesn't have the shuffling gait, no dynkensia, no freezing.

I don't know of PD meds that enable stairs, especially dowm. But late stage PD doesn't respond to meds other than dopamine replacement and that doesn't allow people to walk up and down stairs. Any PD patient who can handle stairs will probably die of something else (or complications from a fall) 20 years later.

[EVO X]

Since the election we have only seen brief clips of her. All the really bad stuff has happened off camera, so who knows? As I mentioned before she has broken a toe, a wrist, and now has a back brace all in less than a year..