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My Dad was just diagnosed

ltbub0418
ltbub0418 Member Posts: 27
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Hello all. I’ll try to make this long story as short as possible. My Dad is 78 and the Geriatric doctor told us in April that he had MCI stage 3. Told us all the lifestyle changes to make. Said he would go for a MRI and PT and we would get a care plan in 2-3 weeks. A month after this appointment and we made all the lifestyle changes and I thought he was doing better. We never got a call for the MRI or PT. I happened to find his care plan on his portal buried in a documents file. The care plan diagnosed him as Stage 4 and gave me a laundry list of legal and safety goals to accomplish right away for him. We started working on those 2 things right away and we are just about done. Still no MRI. I called the scheduling office they claim they didn’t have a script for it. After 3 calls to the doctors office I finally got to speak to someone who sent the MRI script to a different office. UGH. Anyway, I have it scheduled for next week.
My question is how will the MRI change his care plan ? He seems to be doing better just following our “ new normal “ I’m concerned that a bad result might set him back.
Any help or advice is appreciated

Commonly Used Abbreviations


DH = Dear Husband
DW= Dear Wife, Darling Wife
LO = Loved One
ES = Early Stage
EO = Early Onset
FTD = Frontotemporal Dementia
VD = Vascular Dementia
MC = Memory Care
AL = Assisted Living
POA = Power of Attorney
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