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Jeannette, Dick is seeing a neurologist that his heart doctor reccommended. He ssems to be competent enough, but not one to get overly involved with his patients. I have only talked to him once. Dick usually goes to his doctors by himself. He goes when he is suppose to and is not afraid to call and ask questions and he will do what the doctors tell him, (most of the time) He takes his medication but sometimes not as he should. He has short term memory loss from his heart attacks. It is quite a balancing act between keeping the PD meds coordinated with the heart meds. He has only been on Sinement about a year, but in that time, it has been increased three times. But in spite of all this, he still get up at 5am an goes to work and does not stop until 6pm or later. His idea has always been that no matter what you just get up every morning and do what you have to do to the best of your ability and the rest will take care of itself. I think I get more out of this list than he does. He does not seem to interested in what I am learning. At first, I wanted him to take a disability from the company and stay home and take it easy and enjoy his life while he can, but, now I am not so sure. Maybe he is doing what is best for him. We all cope in our own way. I just want him to have the best of whatever is available to him at any given time. My concern is that everytime he has a problem like twitching all night, losing is speech in the middle of the day, (he is a saleman and that can be very disconcerting to customers as they sometimes think he is drunk because his speech gets very thick and slurred.) his doctor just gives him another pill. It seems I spend all my time ordering medication. Some of it helps and some doesn't. It also seems to me that since the onset of his symptoms (he was unable to control his saliva) that he has developed other symptoms at a very rapid pace, but his doctor seems to think this is normal and just increases his medicine. I guess I just want to know if this is how it goes. I feel we are ignorantly just doing what we are told to do and hoping that we are doing the right thing.. Suecg