We are trying to get Ida into a nursing home, as you all know.

First of all there are tons of paperwork involved and we have done our best
with it.

The big issue is that when we took her to the doctor for the medical exam
the nursing home required, they discovered she had diabetes and that she had
something in her urine that suggested a UTI.   So they gave her antibiotics
for a week to clear it up.   But before they gave us the antibiotics we had
to wait for several days for the test to determine that there was some
infection.   Then add the week of antibiotics on top of that.   Now there is
a SECOND urine test to wait for.

I am getting pretty aggravated while all this nonsense is going on.  Don't
they realize that we are at the end of our rope already and that every day
is hard?

Then I asked the Dr. last January when Namenda first came out if we could
try it.   He hedged saying that he didn't know if she could take it with her
other drugs but he would check.   So when we went there again for the
nursing home admittance exam, I asked him again about the Namenda,
mentioning that she has been on the Aricept for at least 6 months which is
what they suggest for Namenda.   AGAIN he hedged.

Believe me I think it is time to get rid of this doctor, but right now we
are too entangled in the nursing home application and such to change horses
in mid stream.

In the past I had bad experiences with them too, but when you aren't really
all that sick it isn't important.   When the chips are down it becomes VERY
important, and that is now.