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On 4/11/2013 4:38 PM, gloria p wrote:
> On 4/11/2013 9:15 AM, Nancy Young wrote:


>> I read someone's account of developing early onset Alzheimers and
>> that was my takeaway ... she was driving to her usual supermarket
>> and suddenly didn't know the way ... it really stuck with me.


> We had a friend in his late 40s who was driving home from a meeting
> ~30 miles away and suddenly didn't remember anything. He stopped at a
> house and told the woman who answered the door: "My name is xxxxx and I
> don't know where I am going."
>
> It was a brain tumor. He lived less than 6 months.


Yikes! Imagine that. Either way, it must be so frightening to
the person who knows This is not good.

nancy