<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/559db07b-2bbf-4591-b2ee-c3bcc3de5299/23CFD7EF-1D24-4643-96B4-EF5C60651C71/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/dementia-you-could-see-the-warning-signs-but-it-took-two-years-before-we-got-a-diagnosis-1545002.html" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/dementia-you-could-see-the-warning-signs-but-it-took-two-years-before-we-got-a-diagnosis-1545002.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.independent.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/dementia-you-could-see-the-warning-signs-but-it-took-two-years-before-we-got-a-diagnosis-1545002.html"><P>Angela Smith has seen both her husband and mother succumb to dementia. This is her harrowing story</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/dementia-you-could-see-the-warning-signs-but-it-took-two-years-before-we-got-a-diagnosis-1545002.html">Freddie got his first symptoms when he was in his early sixties – heart palpitations, complaining of feeling stressed at work. He had to retire. He was suddenly faced with doing nothing. It was all put down to depression. Looking back, you could see the warning signs of dementia, but it was a long nightmare to find out what was really wrong. It took two years of visits and battles before we finally got a diagnosis.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/dementia-you-could-see-the-warning-signs-but-it-took-two-years-before-we-got-a-diagnosis-1545002.html"><P>Dementia is a very lonely place to be. He became somebody who called me names that I had never heard spoken from his mouth, punched and kicked at me. I am not a big woman and my husband is a big man. It is traumatic and upsetting almost beyond words to see that sort of change in someone you love. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/dementia-you-could-see-the-warning-signs-but-it-took-two-years-before-we-got-a-diagnosis-1545002.html">Soon after his diagnosis, Freddie turned to me and said: "Don't put me in the madhouse. You won't put me in the madhouse will you?" </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/23CFD7EF-1D24-4643-96B4-EF5C60651C71/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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