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My first hospice care...

She died early this morning.  I was sad, but not surprised when I found out today around 3
o’clock.  Her family thought she’d hold t longer, or perhaps, for whatever reasons, they had
hoped she would.

Terry was already at the end of the fourth stage of Parkinson’s disease.  With her jaw locked,
teeth  out, and tongue partially paralyzed to the side of her mouth, it was becoming more and

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July 07, 2008

If everyone on the planet stopped polluting just for one year,
the earth would be able to cleanse itself.  So…If the earth were
clean…and everyone continued a non-polluting life…would
disease and other life threatening problems be reduced…
or better still…erraticated?  Thought-provoking…

Anyway…Nicole wasn’t having a new kind of seizure at all!
According to a Movement Disorder Specialist it was a “classic”
reaction to the Geodone (which Nicole takes for “mood” stabilization

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New kind of seizure...

My Nicole…she’s 21 next month.
We’ve lived with her seizure activity since infancy.
(I suspect she had a reaction to the thimerisol (mercury)
preservative used in the vaccinations in 1987.)
Anyhow…more seizures all day yesterday…
She’s had the grand mal, petit mal and psycho-motor kind,
but recently a new kind has emerged.
These were “head bobbing” and “eye rolling.”
Oddly…she was conscious and able to describe them to me.
They hurt her neck and back terribly.

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Hypo-sensitive

They tell me I’ve a new problem.
The thyroid isn’t up to par.
Weakness, lacking energy, frequent bouts of despair.
To the untrained eye…looks like Lazy in a Nutshell.
Years and years of symptoms…sudden life-long meds???
I don’t think so.
Wisdom whispers, “research first…our heart needs reassurance…”