i was contacted recently by a journalist and writer who reads my blog and has interviewed me before
she wrote i was thinking this morning that you should take your blogs on alzheimers and make them into a book
now ive thought about that several times
you can take your blogs as written and make a book from them
they take the blogs word for word and place them on the book pages
i thought about it since she wrote me
so
what i plan to do is to take blogs and make short chapters
i will date the blog with the original date it was written and will plan to do some editing since how i write has changed some over the last 8+ years
yes
i plan to not use caps or punctuation
as i read and edited this blog on mci it was surreal
this was september before i went up in november to volunteer for the alzheimers study to be in the normal control group
man was i going to be blindsided
reading this i realize how much more i know about memory loss now
since my mothers journey with alzheimers disease and my younger brother advancing in his disease i had started to spend time reading more about it and what one might do to slow it down
in my office i started putting literature in the exam rooms for folks to pick up and read
i actually about this time began to realize how little i knew about the disease
as ive read some of my blogs during this time well yes it bothers me
its like i was so innocent about what was going to happen
9-9-2010
MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT
researchers studied 2000 older patients that were dementia free
16 % showed symptoms of mild cognitive impairment (mci)
mci is picked up on neuropsychological tests or memory tests like the moca test
the changes may be subtle
mci is thought to be the precursor or the early beginning of alzheimers
alzheimers changes in the brain occur 1-2 decades before symptoms show up in a person
research is looking to pick up mci earlier than it is now
with mci memory problems are greater than whats expected for when a person ages
eg
its not where did i put my dang keys but what are these things im holding in my hand
mci occurs more commonly in men than women
yes we get screwed again since we also have more heart attacks and strokes than women
mci is twice more likely to be amnestic memory loss
i sure hope that doesnt include peoples names
mci is more prevalent in those with the apoe 4 gene which is a known risk factor for developing late onset alzheimers
mci is decreased in those with the most years of education
maybe all that medical school will help me and maybe i will work on my phd
mci is increased in those who have never married and is lower in married persons
some of my relatives shouldnt get mci then
this is a summary from eupdate from the alzheimers disease and education referral center
tuesday september 7 2010
after i wrote this blog i realized i now knew a little more about what mci was
man
little did i know that label would be slapped on me in a few months and it would alter my life and my familys lives and many of my patients lives
next week
chapter 2 where i wrote about more alzheimers stuff totally unaware of what was going on up in my own brain
this may be harder to do than i expected
the organicgreen doctor
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