Black Eyed Kids(BEK) are pale skinned children between the ages of 6 to 16 who may come to your doorstep and ask to be invited into your home. They seem to be dangerous and evil. They can't enter your house unless invited. You know, like vampires. I haven't seen any BEK myself but we people with parkinson's know they are out there, lurking, ready to make a home invasion. No invitation necessary for our Black Eyed Kids.
Our BEK really are evil and include:
- Sudden drop in blood pressure when standing, which can cause dizziness and falls.
- The most evil constipation. Straining to release the bowels can cause a drop in heart rate and higher or lower blood pressure - again dizziness and maybe falls.
- Exhaustion
- Exacerbation of PD caused by anxiety and stress.
- Problems with thinking-not IQ, just slower to make decisions
- Word finding problems
- loss of facial expression and
- the granddaddy of them all, dementia.
Of course not all of these BEK's will be experienced by PWP. As I have said before, this is a designer disease. No two outfits are the same, everybody is different, but I kind of recognize one or two in me. As for the others, I am just not going to invite them in and they won't get in without a fight.
Black Eyed Kids indeed. Just another urban legend unless, that is, they are metaphors. We know all about metaphors; don't we?
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