Posted by Beverly Adams on April 22, 2001, at 6:09:01
In reply to Re: Demerol Interaction » Beverly Adams, posted by kazoo on April 21, 2001, at 0:00:55
Compasionate Kazoo,
Thanks for your message and caring. I reread it and it helped me. Right now, I'm on a completely different sleep schedule than Mom. ( She's the one sleeping at night ) I know I'm getting fed up with what she is going through. I know she can't help it. I hear alot of "We gottas" or "You gottas". I'm fighting sevre depression myself ( I'm on medication, tisn't working ). We don't have any family where we live and the friends we have are older than Mom and going through some health problems of their own. We also live in a small town ( the largest employer is the hospital ) which doesn't have any services to help me.
It just kills me to see her like this. I feel helpless and discouraged. We seemed to have been close to some help with her dystonias and now I fear we've been handed a large backwards leap. I had to fight for three years to get her properly diagnosed ( it took migraines before a nuerologist diagnosed her with Meige's Syndrome or dystonias ). We even traveld up to Atlant and Emory, where we saw the Cheif of Neurology, who is also on the Foundation of Dystonias Scientific Board and who entirely missed the diagnosis suggested by another doctor at Emory in 1994.
The psych docotr she was seeing at home ignored the 1994 diagnosis, said she had Tourette's Syndrome and put her on Prolixin. It worked for her until we had a lung cancer scare with me two years ago. Where it took only 10mg of Prolixin to help with the noise, 50mg wasn't making a dent.
Enough of the soap box.
( a grateful ) Bev
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