Neurologists

[Elaine Wirth <fancymoon@xxxxxxxxx>]

My name is Elaine Wirth.  My husband has PD with frontal lobe dementia.  He 
went to Utah and rode in the jeep boulder hopping with my son at the end of 
April.  He was coherent and his usual passive self.  In May, he began losing 
his balance and falling.  Toward the end of the month, he began having visual 
illusions and became paranoid with hallucinations.  He also became agitated and 
combative.  He was low on oxygen and his mind left him for most of the day.  
After a fight with the hospital, they admitted him from the emergency room to 
the hospital.  The insurance company has been trying to get him entered into a 
custoidial care facility.  I have read that this kind of problem can often be 
fixed, but is tricky to adjust meds to put his acetycoline and dopamine levels 
in balance.  I do not want my husband to be thrown away just because he is 
seventy and causing the insurance company some money.  There are few 
neurologists in NM and the two that work for the HMO will not
 visit patients in the hospital.  Now a geriatric psychiatrist is managing my 
husband's case, but as far as I know, he has not consulted any neurologist.  If 
any of you know any ways to require them to provide  a competent PD neurologist 
who might be able to put these  chemicals back in balance, or at least give him 
the 6 to l2 weeks trials necessary, please let me know.  I am frantic.
Elaine Wirth


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