Alzheimer’s Summit’s 4th Day strains Doña Quixote’s “open-mindedness”: cure dementia?
AT THE END OF THE POST, I AGAIN GIVE SIGN-UP INFORMATION FOR THE ALZHEIMER’S WORLD SUMMIT and THE AGENDA FOR DAY 4, Sat 10/23 While thinking about, promoting, and preparing for the Alzheimer’s World Summit (Oct 20-24), I tried to learn as much as I can about slowing/preventing/reversing/curing dementia in the contexts of both complementary/alternative/intergrative medicine […]
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Field Notes on My Dementia
When I turned 61 in 2011, I was diagnosed with cerebral microvascular disease, a precursor of dementia. Since retiring from my job as the associate director of Gender Studies at the University of Utah
When I turned 61 in 2011, I was diagnosed with cerebral microvascular disease, a precursor of dementia. Since retiring from my job as the associate director of Gender Studies at the University of Utah soon after my diagnosis, I completed a memoir, MEMORY’S LAST BREATH: FIELD NOTES ON MY DEMENTIA, which is forthcoming from Hachette Books in June 2017. But dementia does not hold still. Like anyone with a degenerative brain disease, I continue to dement every day, never done until I die. Every time my brain suffers an additional insult, I have less brain power to puzzle out my remaining “self.” There will come a time when I don’t care or don’t know who I am. Until then, though, I hope to maintain this website with the help of my saintly and tech-savvy husband, Peter.
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