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To: Dr. Scarpetta

If I had any respect for Fox, I lost it when he quit taking his meds before his congressional testimony.


15 posted on 05/23/2011 8:49:45 PM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: ConservaTexan

Parkinson’s is a terrible disease. If someone in your family gets it, you’ll find out it’s nothing to joke about.

My mother has a form of it called Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.

She can’t stand, walk, or turn over in bed. We have to carry her to put her to bed or in the wheelchair. It has taken away her handwriting and her ability to speak. Now it’s destroying her eyesight so we read the newspaper to her.

Also, her eyelids won’t stay open unless we take her to the hospital for Botox injections in her eyelids every three months.

We have her at home, and we’re caring for her there. It requires 24 hr. care. We prepare her meals and help her to eat. Caregivers help us to bathe and dress her.

My mother has all her faculties, and she’s trapped in her body.


16 posted on 05/24/2011 8:37:49 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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