Just wanted to add that when Alan went to the doctor for the first time 18 years the first question the doctor asked him was "Do you drink, did you drink, and when did you stop drinking??" Alan explained that he drank like a fish in his late teens to early twenties but stopped after that and the doctor said "okay, you're not an alcoholic"

Then he hit us with (and I kid you not) "HAVE YOU EVER HAD SEX WITH A VIETNAMESE WOMAN?" We just looked at him. Here was a neurologist asking my husband if he ever had sex with a vietnamese woman!!!!

I think I blurted out "Are you out of your mind?", or something to that effect and the doctor laughed and said "no, it's a valid question".

I said "on what planet would it be necessary to know if my husband slept with anyone who is vietnamese and BY THE WAY, ALAN, HAVE YOU EVER SLEPT WITH A VIETNAMESE ANYBODY.?????

And Alan starts sputtering, "The only person I have slept with since I married is Melody". And the doctort bursts out laughing and says to Alan "No, Alan, I mean before you were married". We must have looked like two stupid idiots looking at this doctor and wondering why he is asking this stupid question.

Well, as my mouth was open, the doctor says "During the vietnam war, most of our men slept with Vietnamese prostitutes, and the men got Syphilis and now the men are all coming down with neuropathy!!!!

I was absolutely flabberghasted. I said "are you serious?". Believe me, he was serious.

So Alan set him straight that he had never been to Vietnam (my cousin did and I must ask him about this some day. lol).

I will never forget that doctor visit in all my life.

Melody