Morning, I'm a "newbie" so please advise if I'm in the wrong genre.
My Mother, 91 yrs is in an Alzheimer's Unit.   Still mobile and feeding
her self.   Her unit has hand rails on the inside of the building, but
once any of the residents get outside to a grassy area with sidewalks,

I went to visit my Mom today in assisted living.   She seemed a more alert
than usual.    She remembered that she had company yesterday evening.    Her
cousin Laura along with her  husband.   I knew that Laura had alz and that
it had progressed much more rapidly than Mom's. ...

This is the 6th week my husband has been in hospital and although he
seemed to have improved physcially the 'fits' as he calls them, they
are episodes which are trance like, have returned, one of them lasting
for 45 minutes.

With Michelle in S Aust by email maybe 1 on 1 conversation may help you
Hang in Girl

ok.... the only 2 threads that have posts are both ~quacked~
How IS everything going for everyone otherwise?
I'm incredibly busy ....  working tons more than usual (and got a HUMUNGOUS
raise) and run off my feet and totally overwhelmed at times ... but it's

I developed multiple sclerosis in 1991 and, over a two year period,
gradually overcame it using an alternative treatment suggested by Edgar
Cayce, a man many regard as the father of modern holistic medicine.
Cayce also suggested a promising alternative treatment for Alzheimer's

TO: All Alzheimer's disease researchers, doctors, and patients.
I am a 35-year-old electrical engineer investigating the biomechanical
effects of shoes on degenerative diseases.  Each year I post about this
admittedly unusual connection, but thus far nobody has taken it

<<snip>>
toxic brain ferrous ions
<<snip>>
Study of the localization of iron, ferritin, and hemosiderin in

I have been posting re my husband who has been in hosptial for nearly 5
weeks now while having been diagnosed with dementia.
Although there appeared to be a possibility they may release him as he
is physically not too bad I am still hoping they will place him in a

I think I am lost to my Mums memory,but thats ok.
I now visit Mum frequently since her move to the long stay area of our
local hospital,I am sure she has not recognised me once in the past 2
weeks or so.This is happening to Dad on and off and no recognition of

Compound In Cocoa Responsible For Improving Blood Flow
Category: Nutrition/Agriculture News
Article Date: 19 Jan 2006 - 0am (UK)
While a growing number of studies has shown a link between

My  brother, sister and I had to get my mother into a care unit at Xmas -
she has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's - all the symptoms are classic and
are mentioned in this group - she turned on the stove with an empty pan on
it, was not bathing, the house was dirty and she could ...

Hi everybody....
Hubby was checking something somewhere online.
It seems that they now have a theory that the placques that form in the
brain with alzheimers are the byproducts, the result of some anomaly of the

I am a 41 year old male who has had a life-long problem with something
that is akin to severe Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). I've been on
the usual ADD drugs, and recently trileptal, but nothing has worked. In
addition to the usual ADD symptoms, it seems that the simplest of ...