Charlie's days

On Saturday, 9/5/09 I visited with Charlie. He seemed a bit anxious and was asking to leave. He wanted to go see the ocean somewhere. We talked about Breck and the nurses there and he seems to like it. By the time I left, however, I could see that he wasn't quite right. I spoke with the nurse on duty and she agreed that his day had been a bit different.

Kerry and I received a phone call from Jennifer Morgan at Breck on Monday morning, 9/7/09. Jennifer said that she was unable to wake him, he had a slight fever and once he did wake up a couple hours later was unable to get out of bed. We drove up to visit Charlie in the afternoon and he was still in bed. His temperature was 100.1 degrees and he seemed very agitated. These symptoms, however, we have seen before and Charlie had gone to the hospital in August because of them. The doctors ran many tests only to state that this is late stage Parkinsons Disease and they may become more frequent over time. Therefore, Jennifer, Kerry and I sat with him and kept him as comfortable as possible to ride out the storm.

By Tuesday morning, 9/8/09 Charlie was awake and feeling much better. He had a pretty "normal" day even taking a ride with the other 5 residents to go have ice cream! Looks like it's just part of the "roller coaster" of living with Parkinson's. Hopefully he will have more good days than bad.

Thanks for all of your continued support and love.