organicgreendoctor: alzheimers news-what she said

organicgreendoctor: alzheimers news-what she said: ALZHEIMERS NEWS-WHAT SHE SAID my wife she wrote this blog entry for the local alzheimers association telling my story sorry but she uses pun...

alzheimers news-what she said

ALZHEIMERS NEWS-WHAT SHE SAID

my wife she wrote this blog entry for the local alzheimers association telling my story
sorry but she uses punctuations and capitals

the picture above is from 2020 in the middle of the covid pandemic
it was cold that day and the walk was postponed but a short ceremony was held at the santa barbara mission
i was about 45 lbs lighter than i am now due to what they thought was covid affecting my appetite

i thought at the time that i was going to go from covid instead of alzheimers

We missed one walk to end alzheimers in 15 years

thats my goal what is on the back of her jacket
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1 December 2025 

Dear California Central Coast Alzheimer's Association, 

We’ve walked for 15 years - at least one walk per year and sometimes 2 or 3 in different towns.  

My partner was a beloved family practice doc in Austin Texas.  ALZ came for his beloved family: his preacher dad, Charles W; his nurse mom, Nell; his fireman & sheriff baby brother, Joe.  Seeing the writing on the wall, my husband, Dr Nash signed up to be in an ALZ study in Dallas.  “Sorry,” they said when he was tested, “You don’t qualify to be in the control group as planned… you already have Mild Cognitive Impairment.”  On December 20, 2010, one of the last prescriptions Dr Nash wrote as a practicing physician?  Aricept for one of his ALZ patients.  24 hours later in Dallas, his new neurologist was handing over a script for Aricept to my husband.  To say our family was devastated was an understatement.   

My Santa Barbara sister immediately shared a book, Zen Shorts, with us. The story within, The Farmer’s Luck. (See insert below.)

This diagnosis, an ALZ precursor? Such bad luck? Maybe.  

But my husband dedicated his new life to one ALZ study and then another and another.  He became a vocal advocate for the Alzheimer's Association (including a daily blog),  https://www.organicgreendoctor.com/2025/11/organicgreendoctor-alzheimers-news-do.html

a deliverer of Meals on Wheels,and a home builder with Habitat With Humanity.  When we moved to Santa Barbara in 2017 to be close to family support, he dedicated his volunteer work as a community gardener.  In addition to doing all the preventative things he could possibly do to buy us precious time, he also began clinical trials of Aduhelm at UCLA.  State-of-the-art brain pet scans confirmed the naughty amyloid plaques had indeed deposited in his brain.  Bad luck? Nope.  Good luck that qualified him for the maybe magic bullet Aduhelm.  After 34 monthly infusions, the amyloid plaques were gone.  Gone! Gone! Gone!

We, including my healthy hubby/perhaps survivor of ALZ, will walk Saturday Dec 6, 2025 in sunny Santa Barbara surrounded by donors, advocates, patients, care-givers, friends and family,  including our FOUR precious grandchildren. Good luck, indeed.    

As Samuel L Jackson says in his ads for The Alzheimer's Association, “Enough is enough!  Alzheimer’s, you came for my family. Now I’m coming for you.” 

Jo Nash & Dewayne Nash https://act.alz.org/site/TR/Walk2025/CA-CaliforniaCentralCoast?team_id=1004923&pg=team&fr_id=18431

       all i have to say is such bad luck maybe

such good luck maybe plus what she said the oganicgreen doctor

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