Re: Sinamet vs. Mirapex, etc.

[haphill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

love him - he'll know.

Quoting Elaine Wirth <fancymoon@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Dear Gerry,
> 
> My heart is breaking for you.  I know what you mean because last summer I
> thought I was losing Dick forever.  April 12th will be our 50th anniversary. 
> I was a basket case like you are now.  My children could not understand. 
> They always saw me as a strong woman.  He came home a different person than
> when he went into the hospital.  I am going through that living grief now,
> but last May I knew he was dying and I felt like I was dying, too.
> 
> I wished him a swift death at that time, but he recovered and came home to
> lead a long, slow decline until he faces what your dear husband is facing. 
> We have never known any drug except sinemet and eldepryl.  I will look up the
> drugs you speak of.
> 
> I wish you a merciful time as well as that for Brig.  Bless you.
> 
> Elaine, cp Dick age 72 diagnosed 11 yrs. ago
> 
> Gerry Haines <Brignal1@xxxxxxx> wrote: You must all realize when Brig was
> diagnosed, there was no Mirapex, just  
> sinemet.  Therefore,  symmetrel (amantadine) or sinemet, was the only  thing
> 
> available, then came permax, etc.....
> Brig is now in Mercy hospital in end stages of Parkinson, unable to  
> communicate, move, swallow, sodium levels beyond belief, on oxygen, and non 
> 
> responsive to me and my children.  
> I am a mess, feel like I have been grieving for years, and now I don't know 
> 
> how to grieve,
> No one should have to suffer like this after 22 years, enough is  enough.  I
> 
> pray God is merciful to him.
> Gerry
> 
> 
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