Happy New Year!!

I actually stayed up to ring in the new year. That's because I was listening to Mr. Traffic. he's beginning to scare me. I have to find a way to contact his son in Iraq. He keeps talking to me about killing himself. He's even looked up on the Web ways to do it and"doesn't think any of them are quick and painless." I don't know what to say to him. Part of this is because he can't hear very well anymore. By the time I get him to understand what I'm saying the point is passed. The reason he wants to kill himself, is because physically how he feels. He can't sleep anymore. The 30Th was the first night he didn't sleep at ALL. Mostly he can only sleep 45 minutes at a time. So, he spends his days in a trance. He falls asleep while teaching his class. When he takes me out to dinner (yes, I will driving him from now on when we do that) he drives 15 miles or so in the wrong direction until I ask him where we are going. He can't remember where the restaurant is located at. I have to question him about it and then direct him how to get there. He is no longer cooking his food. He now lives on frozen dinners. He has really declined since we met. I don't know whether it's the lack of sleep that's doing this or what. When he does start to sleep, he either starts itching intensely all over and has to get up (he feels this when he gets comfortably warm as well), or he starts feeling like he's sliding into a vortex and will die when he hits bottom. So he leaps out of bed.
His doctor is not helping him. In fact he tells me that his doctor prescribed a medicine that said quite clearly that it would be fatal if taken with a blood thinner. Mr. Traffic is only on an experimental one. His blood is so thin, he's not allowed to shave with a razor, and the times he's nicked himself with his fingernail, he's bled for over an hour. So, he has no trust in her, and I don't blame him.
Everything that is wrong with him, (beside his heart problems) can be explained by lack of sleep. I must get in contact with his son, so Mr. Traffic will go to another doctor and his son can help him out financially with this problem, and talk him into going.