Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Alzheimer's: You start thinking

A husband wrote: “I was confused until my wife got fired from her job. After that you start thinking.”

We all have lapses of memory at times or days when our behavior seems a little out of character, often when we’re tired, stressed or feel like our brains are overloaded.

When it comes to conditions such as Alzheimer’s, dementia or memory, the change can be gradual. An observer may not make sense of a transformation until a person is diagnosed, and then a lot of past behavior can be explained. Sometimes, there’s a sudden wake-up call … an accident, getting lost while driving or losing a job … before it’s clear that something is wrong, terribly wrong.

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