I was having some numbness in my hands, blurry vision in one eye and sciatica. The doctor denied another doctor's referral. I said I'd been told the symptoms which came and went might be indicative of MS. He said "You don't really want to know if you have that, do you?" He was trying to save a buck.

What's frightening is I probably knew more about MS than that doctor before I finally saw someone who cared. I'll bet Spud knows more about Alzheimers than many doctors. It's the patients who wind up doing the most research because their doctors don't have the time or think they know enough already.

Maybe if I suddenly found out I had Alzheimer's, I'd read everything I could on the subject, then look for a doctor who knew more than I.