Well, my company Christmas party is tonight. When I left for work this morning, Dave was really looking forward to it. I'm a little stressed by it because I'm like a protective mama bear where he's concerned. Not everyone I work with knows that he has Alzheimer's, and a few of the ones that do are a little freaked out by it. Oh well, it will be what it will be, and we're planning on having fun!
We had our 6 month check up with Dr. Strahman on Thursday. We love Dr. Matt (as he calls himself). Dave still has Alzheimer's, (duh!)and has not progressed much since the last visit, but Dr. Matt did say that he's progressed quite a bit from our first visit 18 months ago. I told him about the anger issues, and he's reluctant to prescribe Seroquel at this point. That's fine with me, I think he's over medicated anyway. He advised if it gets out of control to call him, and I will.
Dr. Cingolani (cardiologist) wants to start Dave on coumadin, which is a blood thinner. The problem is, he has to go to the coumadin clinic once a week for 2-3 months so they can watch and adjust the dosage till they get it exactly right. The thought of having to drive to LA every Monday for 2-3 months is not appealing to me in the least. I was talking to Dr. Matt about it, and he agrees with Dr. Cingolani that he needs to be on coumadin because of the A-Fib and aneurysm. He did a little detective work and discovered that our shiny new VA clinic in Oxnard can do the weekly testing, and it's only 5 minutes away. Now that's do-able! See why I love Dr. Matt? :)
Well, not much else going on, it wasn't a terrible week, thank God! That's it from me, I wish you all love, happiness and health! See ya next time in the blogosphere! Love ya!
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