Sue had her routine appointment with Glen Lopate, her neurologist, yesterday. He is the physician who admits her to Barnes Hospital periodically for immuno-globulin intravenous infusions for treating her neuropathy. He also checks her muscle strength at regular intervals to test how effective the IVIG infusions are. Yesterday he looked back over Sue's record and told us she has increased some muscle strength by as much as 30%, a wonderful result. For the first year Lopate took over Sue's care, he had her do IVIG every month. The second year he decreased it to every two months, and the third year, every four months. Now he is stretching the treatments to one every five months.

Sue's self report is that she is doing much better, has more strength, and can do more. All in all, it was a most encouraging examination and consult. It helps that Dr. Lopate is another gorgeous hunk, extremely caring and empathic.