Dr. Direct called my cellphone while I was standing at the train station. He's surprised by the improvement she's shown since a week ago, he says. He'd still like to do an EEG (apparently none has been done; when he commented on one last week, there had been some mix-up). He doesn't think it's CJD, because of the bounceback. In fact, he thinks she's mostly displaying a lot of the underlying mental illness now—of course, with some dementia. (Which doesn't mean she doesn't need to be in a nursing home.) He probably thinks that a medication reaction was what pushed her to her worst.
So, the neurologist thinks she's crazy, and the shrink thinks she's demented. How convenient! No one has to try to treat her (not that treatment has been particularly helpful, overall, ever), and the nurses and aides end up doing all the work.
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