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Our dad passed away from respitory arrest secondary to Parkinson's on August 16' 2015
He was the proud father of three and married for nearly 70 years to his wife Velva.
Dad served in the Air Force during world war worked at a packing plant nearly all his working adult loved to draw, paint signs, read, and spend time with his
We think dad started showing subtle signs of Parkinson's many years before his actual diagnosis, but some of his symptoms were attributed to essential tremor. As the years gave way to increasing odd symptoms, it was three weeks before his death that his neurologist said he had " full blown" Parkinson's then any medication that was given did not did not have the typical, what we think of as Parkinson's, did not of the jerky motions we see with other did have balance, bladder, bowel, frozen shoulder problems and beginnings of vital organs failed
Our dad was a strong, loving know he hated this disease, but also did not understand it or what was happening to
..I hope further research can catch this disease in its most early stages, or identify a genetic marker that will further stem the progress of Parkinson's in other individuals