I have no freakin' clue what to say.
How do you respond to something you've never had to deal with?
I can't really say anything about just this but my grandpa does have Parkinson's Disease.
Parkinson's Disease: In the normal brain, some nerve cells produce the chemical dopamine, which transmits signals within the brain to produce smooth movement of muscles. In Parkinson's patients, 80 percent or more of these dopamine-producing cells are damaged, dead, or otherwise degenerated. This causes the nerve cells to fire wildly, leaving patients unable to control their movements.Though full-blown Parkinson's can be crippling or disabling, experts say early symptoms of the disease may be so subtle and gradual that patients sometimes ignore them or attribute them to the effects of aging. Researchers suspect that genes associated with the late onset of Parkinson's Disease are susceptibility genes rather than causal genes. It is thought that environmental factors act on these gene, consequently leading to Parkinson's disease.
In the video we watched was about a kid with Prader-Willi Syndrome.
It occurs in males and females equally and in all races. The incidence of PWS is between 1 in 10,000 and 1 in 25,000 live births.
PWS typically causes low muscle tone, short stature if not treated with growth hormone, incomplete sexual development, and a chronic feeling of hunger that, coupled with a metabolism that utilizes drastically fewer calories than normal, can lead to excessive eating and life-threatening obesity.
~Peace &Love
Kiru
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