Tonight I stood in the church kitchen helping to prepare dinner for hungry people. One of the volunteers was missing. She had called the day before to tell me she had been diagnosed with IDC. That is breast cancer. The cook looked at me and said, "I would rather have that than Alzheimer's disease. If you have cancer you either respond to treatment or you die. That has to be better than losing your mind to Alzheimer's disease and being a burden."
The thought of Alzheimer's or early onset dementia just scares me to death. I have seen what a toll the disease takes on both the patient and the families. However, I know a woman who was diagnosed but is now on a drug therapy that has brought her back from the edge.
I need to learn more about how to prevent these things and stay in the pool.
www.alz.org Everything you need to know about
Alzheimer's and dementia.
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