Posted 5-15-20 Hi all! Happy Friday to you! Another rainy day in the Ozarks, but I have high hopes. Back to our topic of the week: the brain as a muscle. OK. The brain is NOT a muscle. It uses smooth muscle to help push through and out the bad stuff. If Beta Amyloids are…
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Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 63: Mr. Applegate’s Brain Games: The Brain as a Flexed Muscle
Posted 5-15-20 Happy Thor’s Day! Let’s hammer this week home, what do ya say??? Things are starting to look up in the virus front. Folks are slowly but surely reopening and finding their niche in the new normal. Are things perfect? Even good? No…but they are getting better. In today’s “class”, we will discuss cognitive…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 49: Stressed Out
Posted 5-1-20 Hi all! Happy May Day!! The weekend is much closer than the end of this article will seem. 😉 Hope and trust you are ok. 🙂 In the Ozarks, we are looking at sunny weather the next two days with highs in the high 70s/low 80s…then the required thunderstorms Sunday as payback for…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 45: Is He Going to Stop at # 427? Nope.
Posted 4/27/20 Hi ho, merry old souls! Happy Monday, 4/27 to you! While I have about 12 or 13 articles started on other topics related to memory diseases, I am going to fiddle around with numbers a little more. I am still keeping track on the Shawshank Redemption Re:Dementia days because it helps (?) to…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 18 via a Guest Writer
Posted 3-30-20 The rumors of the end of my Shawshank Re:Dementia series being dead are greatly exaggerated. 😉 In fact, I have decided that I will continue to subtitle each article with this until the day we get to get mom out of solitary confinement (Out of “the hole”). After today’s article, penned by my…
Shawshank Re:Dementia (Day 13)
Posted 3/25/20 (9 months until Christmas) (WARNING…THIS TOPIC and CLIP WILL BE DISTURBING TO MANY, MANY. OK…MOST. OK…ALL…but it needs to be discussed.) (Parental Discretion advised) Happy Hump Day, all! It is going to be a glorious 70+ day with lots of sun here in the Ozarks and 80+ tomorrow. (Sniff, sniff…where are you storms…I…
Shawshank Re:Dementia (Day 5)
Posted 3/17/20 Happy St. Patty’s day, all!!!! Another day without seeing mom. 🙁 Another day “in the hole”. Most folks could use an iPad or an Alexa device, but I doubt mom would get the point in the state she is in. She is more of a hand-holder and a Andy Griffith with me watcher….
This is Us…Wow, Just Wow!
Posted 3-3-20 I would like to say that I am taking a one-day hiatus from our topic to talk up a TV show, but it is completely not the case. Today I want need to talk about the NBC show This is Us. There will certainly be spoilers throughout, so please skip down a ways…
10 Things You Can Learn About Dementia From Planet Fitness
Posted 2-28-20 Happy Friday, all! Another week (nearly) in the books and still no cure or life-extending treatments, but we march on toward that end. It has been an eventful week, as they all seem to be, ending today with a brief appearance on KY3, or local NBC affiliate, talking about our new SeniorAge Alert…
Some Bullets For Your Pocket
Posted 2-11-20 Mom and I dig watching The Andy Griffith Show when I visit. It hasn’t always been this way. We used to go for walks, sit on the couch and visit or sometimes just sit around by the piano and have a howler monkey jam session. (Mom plays almost pretty enough to drown out…