Thank YOU, Jeff. In the coming months, after I write up an account of my husband's final illness for family and friends and to try to understand more fully what happened, I hope to contribute more observations to this forum. Everyone's Parkinsonian experience is unique, but there are elements of interest to many people.

As the wife of a PWP, I lived with him 24/7 in hospitals and a nursing home for six months before he died. What I saw him go through, changed me forever. As the widow of a PWP, I will always have an interest in Parkinson's disease. I can't alter what happened to my husband, but I may be able to help others so afflicted. For example, I may try to start up a support group for PWPs and their families in the European country where I live, since nothing like that exists yet here.