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The Metamorphosis of This Alzheimer's Caregiver (Part One)
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9-27-2009 12:01 PM
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<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/bb30b667-7c4b-4bf2-92c6-30ab413a1637/E48F17EF-3E1B-4A2E-B1E0-D523A02A677C/" 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.alzheimersreadingroom.com/2009/09/metamorphosis-of-this-alzheimers.html" href="http://www.alzheimersreadingroom.com/2009/09/metamorphosis-of-this-alzheimers.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.alzheimersreadingroom.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alzheimersreadingroom.com/2009/09/metamorphosis-of-this-alzheimers.html">My name is Bob DeMarco, I am an Alzheimer's caregiver. My mother Dorothy, now 93 years old, suffers from Alzheimer's disease. We live our lives one day at a time.</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.alzheimersreadingroom.com/2009/09/metamorphosis-of-this-alzheimers.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.alzheimersreadingroom.com/img/1DFA6297-8905-4AF2-AA79-8AAC2A0234E3" alt="" /></div></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.alzheimersreadingroom.com/2009/09/metamorphosis-of-this-alzheimers.html"><DIV> I'm fortunate in two ways. I picked great parents, and God and my parents blessed me with an ability to read fast, and absorb information.</DIV></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.alzheimersreadingroom.com/2009/09/metamorphosis-of-this-alzheimers.html"><DIV> My brain is wired to view everything as a system. This allows me to see all the parts when I encounter something new, or when I am trying to figure things out.</DIV></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.alzheimersreadingroom.com/2009/09/metamorphosis-of-this-alzheimers.html"><DIV> When I first learned my mother was suffering from dementia, I quickly learned you could put everything I knew about dementia and Alzheimer's in a thimble.</DIV></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.alzheimersreadingroom.com/2009/09/metamorphosis-of-this-alzheimers.html"><DIV> So, I started reading. The more I learned the more I wanted to know. I learned a great deal about Alzheimer's disease--including the science. It helped me understand a very mystifying disease. It helped me to put a frame around something that is difficult if not impossible to describe.</DIV></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.alzheimersreadingroom.com/2009/09/metamorphosis-of-this-alzheimers.html">Original content Bob DeMarco, <A href="http://www.alzheimersreadingroom.com/2009/09/metamorphosis-of-this-alzheimers.html">Alzheimer's Reading Room</A></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;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E48F17EF-3E1B-4A2E-B1E0-D523A02A677C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.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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