The symptoms of the 70-year-old mother, who was initially diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, worsened, and when she was transferred to another hospital, she was found to have “Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (prion disease),” which has an incidence rate of 1 in 1 million people. The attending physician declared that he had three months to two years to live. Her daughter in her 30s was pregnant, but she decided to take care of her at home. Even after she gave birth, she is taking care of her beloved mother while raising a 0-year-old child. She appreciates her supportive husband and her father, but is also confused by her relatives who help her out.
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Life after living together
A 70-year-old mother diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease who lives in her family’s home in the Chubu region. Her only daughter, Hiroka Suzuki (30s), was 3-4 months pregnant, but during Golden Week in May 2021, not only her mother but also her father (70) Invited him to his house and started living together.
However, Mr. and Mrs. Suzuki both work (husband is a teacher, wife is a nurse) and are absent during the daytime on weekdays. It will be just his two parents and a dog. Suzuki’s parents often went to the nearby supermarket to buy side dishes at lunch, but her mother didn’t know what she wanted, so she bought Sukeroku sushi every time. In addition, he was unable to walk on the way home from the supermarket, and his eyes were white and blurry. Eventually, I became unable to write.
On the other hand, Ms. Suzuki, who was three to four months pregnant,embarrassmentwas plagued by
“It was my first pregnancy and I was full of anxiety, but suddenly I started taking care of my mother, and at first I was in a state of panic. I was busy with work, and I couldn’t even say I wanted a vacation due to the lack of manpower, so I spent every day whipping my body.”
I had to clean up my parents’ house and prepare it for sale, and I had to take my mother to a family doctor near my parents’ house in the Chubu region once every one or two weeks for her hospital visits. I didn’t.
June. The rear lunge, which is common in mothers with Parkinson’s disease, becomes prominent and makes it impossible to leave the house. A backward lunge is one of the postural reflex disorders in which the body cannot recover its posture when it is pushed backward, and it lunges backward or falls. In addition, I don’t know how to put my pajamas on, she wears them backwards, and I can’t tell my pajamas from her daughter’s pajamas. I consulted my doctor and increased the dose of the medicine, but there was no effect.
