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Parkinson patients are still very intelligent


by: Caro on Sun, Jul 29 2007

My mother was diagnosed in the late 80’s, she went through many stages on the PD. With times, when she became very advance in her disease, I was curious if she was still bright due she was not able to do much and was at the incontinent stage and could barely talk. I did a test with her of mathematic because she was in accounting, and with a calculator, I give her a bunch of x,+,- and divisions and this quite fast and her answer was exactly the same as my calculator… So, amazed, I said to my mom, how can you do that? Your brain is still in good condition, after all…She said with a little voice, my body doesn’t listen to my brain, I am a prisoner in my own body!

It really affected me to see this, against her will she was in a prison, the one of life, and still, since then nothing have been really discovered and it’s one of the worst disease of all…If you think the people have a bad life in prison, think about those PD patients, they live a good life and are in worst condition, then them and government doesn’t do enough for that disease!

In 1993, she got lucky. She caught a cold that changed into a bad pneumonia and few weeks after having been admitted to this hospital, she die in my dad’s arms.

When I received the news I was sadly happy because her sorrows were over and I thanked god for it, she was now in heaven because she was a good person and the best Mom of all.

On this, I hope the doctors or researchers will find the solutions because seeing one of your loved ones with this just breaks your heart, and I don’t wish this to nobody or someone else in my family if it’s genetic!

this is why we need to find remedies, because soon you will know someone too!

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