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Ken - After I responded to your question about hospitalization earlier, I deleted your address, but I've since remembered one other reason I would advise having your wife get permission to take her meds to the hospital with her: When my husband had his first pallidal stimulation surgery, we forgot to do that, and the cost of the meds when provided by the hospital, according to our bill, was several hundred dollars PER DAY! The only medication the doctor ordered besides his PD meds was Tylenol III for headache, and a stool softener. At that time, his PD meds consisted of one Sinemet CR and 3-4 Sinemet 25/100, and one Cogentin. I think he had already stopped taking the Eldepryl by then. It has been awhile now since his surgery, and I no longer remember the exact figure, but I think it worked out to about $70 per pill(!) for the Sinemet. I hope you can get permission for her to self-administer her meds, and if you're unable to do that, the cost factor plus the risks that other people have pointed out of having the hospital substitute a generic version of the med should help convince the doctor that at the very least she should be allowed to use her own meds! Good luck. Margie Swindler