Hi Everyone, Just wanted to introduce myself to the group. My name is Dina and my step-mother was diagnosed with WKS in July 2003, she had worked up until June...
I took Don this morning to a naturopath physician to review what vitamins and supplements best help people with W-K. I'd like to share what I was told to give...
... Hi Loretta I was reading your post and it seems like Don and my brother-in-law (Mark) are some what on the same level. I dont think Mark is taking all the...
... Welcome. My concern in reading about your parents is about your Dad's ability to be able to take care of your Mom? Who is cooking his meals now and doing...
It makes me wonder too why they don't have my Mom on more vit.s than pyschiatric drugs and antidepressants. It is something I too will talk to my Dr. about....
... than ... talk ... gait is ... syndrome. ... Mom ... right ... day ... Rhonda and Tammy: First of all, most physicians are not trained in vitamin/supplement...
I am already living with Dad, we are in the process of finding a big enough place for all of us, (Dad, me, my hubby and our 2 kids 14 and 15), not sure about...
On the eating subject, when my dad was in the nursing home he often refused to eat food he said he didn't like. But then the nurses came up the idea of...
All, My father has WKS. Does anyone know if it is possible to give a WKS patient drugs such as Antabus etc. to prevent them from drinking? Since the dementia...
I have just met my dad (having never met him before), after 34 years. He was in hospital with WKS, I always knew he was a drinker, my mother told me but never...
My brother was just diagnosed with wernicke korsakoff syndrome. He is only 39 and has a young son. This has been devastating to my family. We are not sure...
Stacee, I don't know of any doctors in your area as i live on the east coast but you would want him to see a Nuerologist....
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... Hello, Your story is interesting in that my daughter also just met her father for the first time this summer. She is 25. He no longer drinks because he...
Hi Rhonda thanx for your reply, Its definately a bittersweet moment to meet your parent only to find he's dying. He's in hospital at the mo cos his dementia is...
Hi All, Just an update on my father.....Last wednesday, my mother came home from a short day trip, and found my father bruised, yellow eyes and his lips were...
Joanie, Thankyou for your support, although i do not add to the sit every often..its nice to know that people on here do understand what i am going thru.....to...
HI all, Hope everyones Christmas went off without a hitch. Mine on the otherhand was quite sad and depressing. Christmas eve the drs moved him in to the psych...
Celena, I'm sorry about your Dad, but please don't hold any guilt over that conversation you had with him. Its something that had to be said. You were...
Thanks Joanie, But when i got angry i told him, that no mom did not poison us kids, his drinking did, booze had ruined my childhood, his business..and why did...
In a message dated 12/26/03 6:05:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... But Celena, You spoke the truth. Yes, its sad that it upset him, but it IS the truth, and...
... Celena, Thank God your father is in the hospital where he belongs. The situation had truely gotten extremly volital......I have worried about the situation...
Hi Everyone...Hope everyone had a very blessed Holiday...Sorry I haven't managed to get back online for such a long time..Hopefully that will be changed soon....
Hope everyone had as good a Christmas as possible.....it is still hard to put things aside, even for a day, but I guess we need to grab happiness wherever we...
Thankyou Rhonda for yours words, Dad has now been moved to a psych ward....the confusion is worse now that he is in the hospital thean before and that concerns...
Hi Celena I am so sorry about what you are going through. Hang on in there my mother was just released from a physchiatric ward in October after spending 10...
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