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Dear friends, This is another note about the relentless assault of PD on my wife. Early last week, we had called a psycho-pharmacologist psychiatrist for a consultation after five weeks with a G tube and no progress. Well, he came last night after I left Barb bedside, but our daughter Leah was there. Because Seroquel and trazodone did not reverse the psychosis and paranoia sufficiently, if any, he stopped their use and prescribed a new drug called Melloryl (Sp) which is beginning tonight at a low dose of 15 mg twice a day. The psychiatrist did not know whether the chemically induced psychoses might be reversed and in fact it seems that nobody does. Today, we had appointment with our neuro and the nurse practitioner took us in, that is me and both our children. During the exam, Barb resisted and said she wanted to end it all. We had a very emotional discussion when the nurse practitioner went out to get the neuro. The neuro came in and we got to the point of discussing Barb's 'wish', but upon further prodding from the neuro and explaining what that would entail. Barb relented when asked whether she wanted to starve to death. We decided to go along with Melloryl for a few days, see what happens, and face the decision of abiding to the living will. Today may have been the most lucid day of the past seven weeks............. Michel