"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> "gloria p" > wrote in message
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>> On 4/11/2013 9:15 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
>>> On 4/11/2013 5:15 AM, Alan Holbrook wrote:
>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I think you're okay if you forget what you needed at the
>>>>> store, but in trouble if you forget how to get to the
>>>>> store.
>>>
>>>> Ouch! THAT line is going into my stock speech!
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> 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.
>
> That happened to the husband of a friend of a friend. The not not
> remembering anything. He was driving home from work and went totally the
> wrong way, winding up somewhere in South Seattle and not knowing why he
> was there. The police eventually found him. He had been sitting there in
> his car for the better part of the day. He had also been having crushing
> headaches. He too had a brain tumor. But in his case, he is still
> living. He's about 55 now.

One of the lucky ones. Gloria and Julie ... do you know if they'd had any
indications before the major attack?

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