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I’m more impaired than I look and have decided that I’m better off being open about it.
My local hospital has settled recently on Dementia with Lewy bodies as a diagnosis and would rather have nothing more to do with me. There isn’t any cure and the treatments are palliative if they work at all.
Some days are decidedly worse than others but the better days aren’t bad. I still live on my own.
The local hospital’s diagnosis is unofficial as they are not my primary care physician. My primary care physician at the Veterans Administration cannot make a diagnosis because he is not a neurologist. A pediatrician friend of mine laughed out loud when I told him the story. I can laugh about it too most days but I believe it. The next part isn’t funny. I can’t see a neurologist anytime soon. The VA’s local contract neurologist retired during the plague and the VA hospital in Portland is jammed up with very sick people who get priority over me for the same reason. In the meantime I’m in Limbo and it’s not obvious that an official diagnosis would really be helpful. I would rather not be declared legally incompetent any time soon but I can see that I’m going to need a guardian and I would like some choice in the matter.