Actually, MANY Parkinson’s patients die from pneumonia. It is hard to keep fluids out of their lungs when they drink once they reach a certain point in the disease. The fluid in the lungs can’t be removed easily, but they cough and cough to deal with it. Maybe she doesn’t have pneumonia now, but it is certainly a future possibility if she does have Parkinson’s.
Actually, MANY Parkinson’s patients die from pneumonia. It is hard to keep fluids out of their lungs when they drink once they reach a certain point in the disease. The fluid in the lungs can’t be removed easily, but they cough and cough to deal with it. Maybe she doesn’t have pneumonia now, but it is certainly a future possibility if she does have Parkinson’s.
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Yep, my father died from Parkinson’s/pneumonia. Just as you said....
You may well be right that it is Parkinson’s. My Dad; however, died of pulmonary fibrosis and Hillary’s episode today reminded me of him. Over the course of three years his cough got worse and worse when he attempted to talk. He took steroids to fight the inflammation in his lungs, but that complicated his type two diabetes, and when that flared up he was in the same kind of weak state Hillary was in today. He made it through five rounds of pneumonia in the last year of his life, but the sixth time took him and by then he was happy to go. I think Hillary may well have pneumonia, but it may not be the first time and eventually none of the antibiotics will work.