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Living with Alzheimer's Disease: Dementia Probably of the God Only Knows Type
Again we are in the midst of another round of "I've been rediagnosed" disease going around with some of the PWD. Several years ago, just as I started to write, there was a mild epidemic of it, and now again some verbal folks, Lynn, Tracy, Charlie (others with early onset) are announcing that their doctors now believe they have a form of dementia other than Alzheimer's disease. I've long suspected there is less a disease called Alzheimer's and more a combination and interaction of the less prevalent diseases of dementia - Vascular dementia, Dementia with Lewy bodies, Alcohol related dementia, Korsakoff's syndrome, Fronto Temporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD) or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. When they interact in certain subtle ways they create conditions which we label as Alzheimer's disease.
Richards Views: Living in an Upside Down World
Living with Alzheimer's
Do I live in a world turned upside down? Am I right side up or am I upside down? Who decides: gravity, people who don't have Alzheimer's, or people who do have Alzheimer's? Does it make any difference?
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