First. God bless you for your wonderful caring love of your husband. I am sorry.
Now, let me confide that my father died of end stage Parkinson’s.I was very close. As you undoubtedly know, Parkinson’s is insidious and different in its symptom. Just typing this makes me emotional. . My dad was a very wonderful and successful man. He was brilliant and articulate. I ,like you, watched my loved one become unable to even talk or eat. . He has non tremor Parkinson’s but long onset motor skill deterioration. I never saw a seizure but I had forgotten that it is so different for other types of the disease. I generalized from my experience with him.
You bring to light that Seizures do occur with many Parkinson’s sufferers. I now accept that.
Thank you for sharing. a year after Dad died I had such great dreams where he was strong and young and talking to me again. I cherish those memories. God Bless . Enjoy this day.
Thanks for your note, Wendle, and for sharing your experience with your Dad. I know how you feel about even typing about it, for it brings back so many painful emotions that we all endured during the downhill slide of this terrible disease.
You are right that it affects people so differently, and my husband also had the non-tremor type of Parkinson’s.
I do not respect Hillary Clinton in any way, but wouldn’t wish Parkinson’s on her, or anyone. Lewy Body disease is even worse, and that also has to be considered as a potential diagnosis, even though it cannot be accurately determined until after death.
Whether it is Parkinson’s or not, only a neurologist is qualified to determine that. It could also be related to her stroke - and again, we will have to wait and see how things develop.