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i am a family physician who was diagnosed with
early mild cognitive impairment(mci) amnestic type on december 21, 2010
this is a precursor to alzheimers disease
because of this diagnosis i have opted to stop practicing medicine
this blog will be about my journey with this disease
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i will continue blogging on organic gardening, green living,
solar power, rainwater collection, and healthy living
i will blog on these plus other things noted to be interesting

Thursday, October 9, 2014

veni vidi vici

VINI VIDI VICI
thats what i did yesterday


as i was driving on i35 to dallas yesterday
i looked over to the left
there in a break in the clouds was the eclipse of the moon
it followed me for miles as i drove along
it was hard to take my eyes off it
then as the dawn broke
there to the right from the east
was the bright large orange sun peaking through
a break in the clouds

a sign is what i thought both of these things were

yesterday i underwent the annual reevaluation for
the adni study that im in at ut southwestern

yesterday i got a message from the alzheimers association
where you could click on a link to see where the money
goes when you donate to the walk to end alzheimers

there it was the adni study was prominent on the list
so i want to personally thank those of you who have
donated to the walks this year and in the past
i would not be able to be in this study without your support

i was asked a ton of questions
then i was sucked of a large quantity of blood
i told her she should have just pulled off a pint of blood
instead of putting a little bit in all those tubes
im sure there were 20 of them

then
off to the torture test the neuropsych test
this one i have down good
but
i still have the same problems in the same areas each
time i take it
i do notice ive taken so many of these that i already
know the answers

then after a brief pause where i took the video below
i then went to my neurology appointment to see the
neurologists

the bad news is i dont qualify for the A4 study since i have
memory issues and since i am on aricept  (donepezil)
the good news is that i may qualify for a new study
for people in my category that starts up in december
i will go up and do the interview and testing for this
study
i think if im correct that i will get the beta amyloid scan
that i am wanting

then
if accepted i will be put into either the treatment group
or the placebo group

the treatment group will be receiving monthly infusions
of the iv alzheimers vaccine solanezumab which should
bind the bad stuff beta amyloid from the brain
and if works slow things down or prevent the advancement
of the disease
at least for the 36 months of the study
if i get the placebo i will just get water

no placebo please

this is the biggest thing happening right now in the battle
against this disease
whether this approach will work we will know over the next
5 years since there are a lot of folks being treated with
this solanezumab

more when it happens

then i discussed at length the possibility of using the
36 point treatment that was discussed in the
recent article on research done at ucla

tomorrow i will go into more detail on this
i start the regimen this morning

if it helps it will show up on these neuropsych test
and i will know before anyone else knows

i do realize now that my mom dad and younger brother must
have noticed things long before anyone else did
research is showing thats the case
im living it i dont need research on that one

i also went over all my neuropsych test for the last 4 years
and they are all stable
but i personally feel some slippage has occurred
i notice it frequently

then when i had my break before my neurology appointment
i wondered the campus looking at all the new landscape they
were putting in at the new hospital addition there

in the back of the clinic i go to there was this long row
of purple native plants that looked like indigo spires or
similar plant
i did this short video of all the monarchs that were there
mesmerizing it was
like i was meditating


i think its a sign dont you

donate and or join us this weekend for the
travis county walk to end alzheimers at camp mabry at 1100am
on sunday october 12
our team is austin regional clinic


the organicgreen doctor

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