Miss Ginnie - Good advice - these doctors should read these posts! One more thing about this Dr. High Horse....I had two pages typed up with dates of doctors visits, what was advised, list of current symptoms, pertinent info that I handed to him, and his response was "I don't want that - everything here is computerized". In other words, I wasted my time.

I don't know what I'm gonna do.

Regarding help, support at home. My 87 year old mother, who's had cataract and valve replacement surgery in the past year and half, has had 3 minor strokes and my sister, who lives with her and has had bypass surgery, has diabetes, and has had mini strokes, lives about 30 minutes away. They need no additional stress. My brother lives about 1 hr. 15 minutes away has an auto-immune disease (pemphigoid & pemphigus) and that can be flared by stress. I love them all too much to overload them with my situation.

Here at home I have what's called a functioning alcoholic, he works, but the minute he's off - and I do mean the very minute, even when he gets in the car to drive home, he dives into the bottle. This has developed in the last 3 years. I'm not fun to him - I don't drink and I won't start in order to please him. Per him, he does not have a problem with alcohol....he has a problem with anyone who wants him to stop. Per him, alcohol is all he's got and he loves booze more than anything else in the world. Those are his exact words.

So, do I have support here at home.....no. I've gotten more support from you and people like you on this computer than I can or will ever get here at home.