died unexpectedly this morning

[Guest guest]

My husband passed away this morning sometime between 6:30 AM

when I got up, and 8:30 AM when I decided he couldn't wait any longer

to get his first medications of the day. He actively lived his life

right to the end, not surrendering to Parkinsonism, the loss of his

drivers license or dementia. He insisted on going to the DOT Saturday

to pick up driver's manuals, and placed calls to his financial advisor.

Many of you know he fell and broke his nose and C1 & C2 vertebrae in

March, survived neurosurgery, fell and broke his nose again in May.

He's been home with caregivers since the hospitalization, and we

recently joined hospice, as he began losing weight. He's struggled

through several UTIs, and severe constipation lately, but never gave

up the effort to control his life, despite the increasing challenges

he faced.

I still haven't digested this loss.

Kathy,

60 year old wife of 83 year old who was diagnosed with PD

about 1991. Retrospectively, LBD symptoms were apparent from 2000, if

not earlier. LBD first diagnosed January of 2007.