Spent the whole day in Dallas at doctors Tuesday. Exhausting. Got another neurology opinion. She agrees he has all the signs of hydrocephalus. But she does not recommend treating it. With all the other things wrong with him the improvement would be so minor and the treatment so invasive. They would drill a hole in the skull, go down into the center of the brain where the fluid is and put in a shunt from there down through the neck and into the stomach to empty the fluid into the stomach. She said she would do whatever we wanted. The children and I had already agreed that he had been through enough torture. When asked what he thought, he said he would do whatever we thought best.
I asked why it took him so long to stand up from a chair; she said it was part of the Parkinson’s and also the neuropathy (I hope I have the right word here – lack of sensation).
A sad day.
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