He is 70 years old and was just diagnosed a few weeks ago, but the more we learn we have figured out he has had this at least 6 years. From reading I have seen how much he has improved with medicines and therapy in these last 3 or 4 weeks but he is still sleeping alot. He gets up for therapy(twice a week physical and speech) and to eat then lays back down. He'll get up and talk to me maybe a couple hours out of the day. He seems to have a good time sleeping he laughs and acts out stuff like trying to walk or fix things. Is this all normal part of it? I miss him and it gets lonesome. I think he is so much better but then he's still sleeping about 16 or more hours out of the day.
If you go to Parkinson.org, you will see that excessive sleeping is one of the symptoms, as is acting out dreams (not sure if that's what you were saying after "he seems to have a good time sleeping he laughs, etc.".
Seventy seems awfully young to be dealing with this. I wish y'all luck.