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I went to every football game my son played in. That wasn't easy since Tyler played all through high school. I drove Tyler home after every game. Not a pretty experience if his team lost or he thought he made a stupid play even if they did win. Silence the whole ride home. One time, mid-week, my…
Great news - no one died today from Alzheimer's... or yesterday... or this whole week... or even the whole month. In fact, Alzheimer's must have been cured. At least, that is what you would think if you were an obit reader. I'm one of those. I learned it from my Dad. He used to say that every…
Oddly enough, I've never wanted to be friends with a rodent. Not cuddly enough. Not fun to play with. I may have been the only person to dislike the Disney movie "Ratatouille," about Remy, a rat, who dreams of becoming a chef in Paree. With the help of his rat pal, Linguini (spoiler alert!), he…
I have been to some Congressional hearings and might I sum most of them up right now: yawn.
I read this article last week, which relates:
Recently, Margaret Morganroth Gullette wrote an op-ed in the New York Times, titled, Our Irrational Fear of Forgetting. Basically, Ms. Gullette thinks we're overreacting to Alzheimer's.
We live in a world of acronyms. People seem to shortcut everything - like OMG, I 4got 2 b ther. Okay, I can figure out that sentence - Oh my God, I forgot to be there - and most sentences like that. It is an economy of words to get to the point. But to me, a person who is dropping brain cells left…
Trish Vradenburg joins us today as a regular guest blogger on Alzheimer's Disease. Trish is a playwright, author, television writer, and Alzheimer's Disease advocate. She and her husband George founded UsAgainstAlzheimer's with the goal of finding a cure or treatment for Alzheimer's by the year…