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To: Steely Tom
Do you think it's Alzheimer's?
40 posted on 09/09/2016 9:41:22 PM PDT by GOPJ (Hillary's defense - "I'm not a criminal, I'm just incompetent and slow witted" - freeper Iron Munro)
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To: GOPJ

No, I don’t think so, of course not. I’m not a doctor, and it’s too little information in any event.

I’m slightly sensitized to the issue because a high school classmate passed away a few years ago as a result of “early-onset Alzheimer’s.” She was 58.

She wrote a book about her experiences with help from family members; one thing that stuck with me was that she reported that the first inkling she had that something wasn’t right occurred when she attempted to use an escalator. When she looked down at her feet to judge the right moment to step on, she found she couldn’t make sense of what she was seeing.

Her disease progressed rapidly.

That has haunted me. I look for small deficits in mental function.


42 posted on 09/09/2016 10:01:03 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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