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[ThinAir]

If you have any experience with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease I'd like to correspond with you. This may be what my father-in-law may have.

[ThinAir]

Thanks Dave & Mike. Sporadic CJD is what it looks like he has. Whatever it is, it is a degenerative neurological disorder with fairly rapid onset. He fell on September 1st. It took 5 weeks before the medical system figured out that he'd broken his hip (after declaring on 9/1 that it wasn't broken). Hip replacement surgery followed and that has healed, but he's unable to walk or get out of bed on his own because his brain isn't capable of telling his body what to do. He's 75 years old.

We're investigating Hospice care since CJD is always a terminal condition, but we're also trying to find out if there is anything else it could possibly be. The EEG shows the pattern that indicates CJD, but we were waiting for the results of a spinal fluid analysis. Yesterday we found out that even though the neurologist has been saying for the last month that he's "on top of it", now he says that he can't say for sure that the spinal fluid ever left the hospital to go to the lab. I'm about ready to propose legislation to allow firing squads for selected medical personnel. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/ar15.gif)

Thanks for your thoughts and prayers.