Posted 6-12-19… but leaving on top of the post list due to its more important content. (Click here to return to the main page for newer content) One of my very favorite resources on the Alzheimer’s Association website (and there are many!) is their cornerstone article “10 Early Signs and Symptoms of Alzheimer’s“. This list…
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What Do I Do With This Information??? –OR– Wild Goose Chases Run Amok
Posted 2-27-20 Did you know that there has never been a diagnosis of Schizophrenia applied to a person born blind due to cortical blindness ? Psychology Today adds “across all past papers, there has not been even one reported case of (any) congenitally blind person who developed schizophrenia.” People who go blind, even at a…
A Quick Break from the Regularly-Scheduled Programming
Posted 2-26-20 Last Night I was fortunate to to attend the kickoff to the Walk to End Alzheimer’s season, if you will. This walk, held this year on the morning of September 19th, is the biggest fundraiser of the year for the Alzheimer’s Association, by far the largest advocacy group fighting to end this stinkin’…
The Mixed Blessings of Mobility
Posted on Fat Tuesday, 2020 (2/25) Well, I had a different piece pre-written (about Mardi Gras) in my melon this morning until I got the word that mom had fallen last night. It would seem odd to the unfamiliar (like me 2 years ago) that a person couldn’t be at least somewhat fall-free while spending…
Mom: The Vincible
Posted 2-24-20 Are you into scary movies? I had a prolonged scary movie phase when I was in high school. My stepsister and I used to search out the most heinously stupid scary movie we could find and flop on the couch and soak/laugh it in. I am not confident that this is a super…
Hi! (Coooo) in 5 Stages
Posted 2-21-20 This cannot be real. She is only sixty-five Far too young for this! (Denial, 10 years ago) Like a road flare glows. (Hashtag) End A+L+Z begs Something! Anything!! (Anger) How about this, Lord? Give me dementia, not her? Not Your will, but mine? (Bargaining, poorly) The Brain Bandit Comes. What once was is…
HIPAA, My Dream Christmas Present?
Posted 2-20-20 Pre-article note: I really like the date today! 02/20/2020. The lucky number for the day? 20…or maybe 02/20/2020/202020 in just (sort of) keeping with the pattern?!?! But I digress. Wait…can you digress before you have really said anything from whence to digress? Oh, forget it…off we go! I trust that all of my…
The Key to the Keys
Posted 2-19-20 Howdy, all! I am in transit to a long training today and am short of time, so just one quick thought. (“Quick”…tongue and cheek) What on Earth do you do when a loved one is just showing signs of dementia…but insists on driving? This has come up recently a couple times and I…
401, K?
Posted 2-18-20 Today’s post is #401 since March of last year. 🙂 Our little community has blossomed into a little over 6,000 of my closest friends and family and I thank you. 🙂 Today I just wanted to drop a bit of a sad bomb. Feel free to go back and read the archives instead…
400 Errors Everywhere
“The 400 Bad Request error is an HTTP status code that means that the request you sent to the website server, often something simple like a request to load a web page, was somehow incorrect or corrupted and the server couldn’t understand it.” (https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-fix-a-400-bad-request-error-2617988) Guess what, fellow Cornbread Table members? Today we hit 400!!!! posts since March. Thank you…
Probably Right Under My Nose All Along
Posted Valentine’s Day, 2020 Sometimes my vision isn’t 20/20. Even when it appears that way, I often find out that the item was right under my nose. Such is the news yesterday: https://www.kspr.com/content/news/Bolivar-Mo-clinic-finds-itself-at-center-of-Alzheimers-research-567842631.html I have been applying far and near to clinical studies and, all be darned if there isn’t one about 20 blocks from…