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I can't remember and just looked and ours but L just have the reports with no front page for name or address which is odd for me not to have. However. my daughter is a COO of a Health Company and also a nutritionist. So I turn to her for referrals and to get the Brain nutritionist. She is hiking in Colorado with her family and I can't reach her but she will be back Tuesday night and I have made a note to check on that for you. In the mean time I will keep looking around our house. My wife may have put it somewhere. It is so very hard to get docs to pay attention.
For instance, I had to read theMRI results and found my wife's 9mm lesion is in her brocca area , which controls language. Her wernicke area is perfect. That's where comprehension is. So my wife can fully comprehend but because she has trouble forming the words or doing what's called word replacement(one word for another), people think she can't comprehend. If the circumstances allow, I act as her interpreter. Like she says I'm going to the water. I have to ask you mean the pool or the lake to walk? For something or someone going fast she says they're coming hard. See..... she can comprehend but not say the words. One brain deficiency in one area can appear to be or make people think they just don't understand, when that is NOT true. We just came from the Y where I take her 3 or4 times week to get her heartrate at 110 to 120 because of the vascular blood flow problem. She also has Factor V blood disorder, So blood flow is a challenge for us. On the way back I told her at least 4 times,...Karen you're doing great. You're so much better than a year ago. She said really. she doesn't realize so i give her reassurance she's doing what we need to do and it's working, even if I don't notice much improvement in the last few months. I have to keep her hope up. In Tennessee it is a Class D Felony to tell a Vulnerable Person they won't get better. Probably more info than you wanted but it is so hard and we just have to keep pushing because the system will write them off just as fast a anybody else. Even if the person is just sitting looking out the window most of the time....they are in there and we have to speak for them AND advocate for them, even strangers, they're people.... not throw aways. PS. there are no dumb questions!!!

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That Tennessee law is amazing. Who thought that up? If someone is terminal and getting Hospice, how is it beneficial to tell them they'll get better? Sounds cruel to me. I don't think it's right to lie to patients. If we think our doctors or caregivers are lying to us, how will we ever be able to trust them? It's so condescending. I don't tell my husband everything about his condition, though his neurologist has. We all know the prognosis. It's like answering little kids' questions: answer truthfully and briefly and at a level they can understand. Of course, if your wife really is doing better, by all means tell her so. Good luck to you both.

Very good point. I got into this thread by accident trying to go to mild cognitive deficit, but Factor V leapt out at me. Please know that for any kind of serious eye surgery patients on Xarelto or any of the other neo drugs she would need be off medication for ten days, not two days as is the standard. I learned this the hard way at 78. Had a small shunt for glaucoma inserted after being told to be off my 20 mg two days by two hematologists and staying off four just because I was nervous about it - had an eye wall collapse on the day I was going back for my big checkup. Got injections to inflate the eye again and a couple of other cleanup surgical procedures but the optic nerve was hopelessly damaged. It turns out Factor V makes an extremely hard clot. As far as I know, this still isn't written down anywhere and it happened to me 7 years ago. The retina specialist called in explained that a lot of older patients get prescribed these "new" meds which play havoc with the teeny weak blood vessels in the eye and in combination with Factor V it's especially serious. I hope it never applies to your wife.