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Facing The Final Step

I had brain surgery this week. Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), to be precise.   It i the last step of Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease and is only given after all medical (read drug) therapies have been tried and are no longer effective.  As brain surgeries go, it is routine; over 150,000 Parkinson’s patients have had it […]

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Outliving Myself: On Finding I Have Vascular Dementia

Russell E. Saltzman remembers a funeral for a parishioner in his days as a Lutheran pastor, “A nice fellow,” he writes, “with a plain garden variety dementia, not Alzheimer’s, not the sexy one everybody knows about.” He says the fellow “shrank in upon himself, became less and less of himself, shriveling and his world with him.” He would sit, quietly alone, as the end approached. “Where was his memory?” Russ wonders. “Where was he?”

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