welcome to the organic green doctor blog

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
please feel free to follow me along this path
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

Friday, February 8, 2013

vote for our video

VOTE FOR OUR VIDEO
this is the video that ive posted before and that many of you have watched

the video was made by the alzheimers research center at the university of
texas southwestern medical center
it has been shown on multiple alzheimers websites and several federal websites
like the nih and on the huffington post

that is a picture of my mother who died with alzheimers disease
it also hit her husband my father and her youngest son my younger brother
and appears to have got me also

the video that was done about my story with possible alzheimers
has been entered in the neurofilm festival
the winner of the entries will get recognition
for their involvement with in our case
alzheimers disease education and advocacy

you can vote for the video
as thats how they determine which of the 70+ videos that are
entered this year will win

the winning video will be shown and recognition given at this
years american academy of neurology convention in
san diego

even among neurologists alzheimers patients are avoided
winning this award will help highlight this terrible disease to
this important group of specialists

if you like our video please go through these easy to follow steps to vote for us
click on  this link or go to www.patients.aan.com/go/about/neurofilmfestiv

its easy even i did it right the first time

after creating a user profile
an email is sent to your email account
click on activate your account
then
go to the 24th entry (they are in alphabetical order)

former physician takes action in the face of alzheimers

click on the name and watch the video if youve not seen it before
then
click vote

thats it
encourage people you know to help us spread the word on
alzheimers disease

thanks to all our friends family former patients readers of this blog
and those others we dont know but appreciate

the organicgreen doctor

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