Gingrich to Alzheimer’s Association Advocacy Forum attendees: "We should be able to come together to address Alzheimer’s"

May 16, 2011

Former Speaker of the House and Alzheimer’s Study Group Co-Chair Newt Gingrich addressed more than 600 advocates to begin the second day of the Alzheimer’s Association Advocacy Forum. Throughout his hour-long remarks, Gingrich encouraged advocates to speak out and share their experiences with elected officials.
"The Constitution says, 'We the people,' not 'We the legislators,'’" said Gingrich. "One of my goals here today is to assure you that you have every right and responsibility to go out and tell elected officials what is going on. You are the living embodiment of the Alzheimer’s issue."
Gingrich emphasized several themes, including the ongoing need for bipartisan support of the fight against Alzheimer’s — an issue he embraced when serving as co-chair of the non-partisan Alzheimer’s Disease Study Group (ASG) with former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey. 'Alzheimer’s should be a totally bipartisan issue," said Gingrich. "Alzheimer’s does not just affect Republicans or Democrats, liberals or conservatives. It affects Americans. Therefore, as Americans, we should be able to come together with no partisanship to address Alzheimer’s."
Gingrich highlighted the high financial cost of Alzheimer’s disease to Americans both now and in the future. He emphasized the need for investment in Alzheimer’s research — and the potential cost savings if methods of treatment or prevention could be realized.
"Between now and 2050, Alzheimer’s will cost the American government an estimated $20 trillion," said Gingrich. "Yet today, Alzheimer’s research is grotesquely underfunded. We need the scientific community to tell us the optimum they could invest in the next 10 to 15 years. What could they do if they had the resources they needed to save lives and save money?"
To conclude his remarks, Gingrich shared his overall optimism that the dream of a breakthrough in Alzheimer’s research and awareness is on the horizon.
"I’ve seen things change," he said. "Every generation of Americans has been allowed to dream, and every generation has seen some of their dreams come true."
Following a brief question and answer period, advocates left with much to discuss.
"Anyone who is standing up and advocating, I respect," said Suzette Armijo, an Alzheimer’s ambassador from Mesa, Ariz. "He understands the impact of this disease. He has big dreams and broad ideals when it comes to this issue. It shows us as advocates that there are people on Capitol Hill who have those feelings. It gives us hope."

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What price Alzheimer's

Many of you have lost loved ones to this disease, mothers, fathers, grandparents, friends, siblings and this list goes on. Mother's Day is tomorrow and to all Mother's long gone, still with us and to be, I wish you the happiest of times.

This is only one cost of the Disease, the losss of a loved one. Just think how we feel as we loose the loved one that we care about so greatly, ourself. Sounds selfish, but it is a reality. The other day to me it was just yesterday, because there is only today and yesterday for me, I walked into the "OFFICE", doe not everyone have to have one in their howse. A bedroom with a comuter in it, WOW. Anyway i walked in and the next i knew my wife was in helping me get up off the floor. See this 700 pound pigeon, does not remember how to fly to well. I bet i wennt down with grace, style and diginity and a thud. problem is not remembering what took place, one minute i am standing the next on the floor like a beached whale. I know this is only part of the disease and what is to come, but it is taking longer to get up and the aches take longe to leave and some now stay, they found a home. Good thing I drank heavily in my twenties, I learned how to fall and get back up. So I guess we are born we grow and start to return to our original days.
The more i look at this disease the more I feel it is auto immune in nature. I notice our Alzheimer's Organization here in the states touts the stars who have parents or sweethearts who have parents with the disease as being such brave soles and all the work they do for Alzheimer's. I say stick it up your ass you do nothing for us. At least Canada has speakers at meetings with the disease so that the true story comes out. I know I have a couple of friends up their speading the word at AD meetings by the Alzheimers Assoc. of Canada. Kudos to you folks.  Here forget it. See personal experience has shown me the nature of their commitmennt.  The San Diego Chapter, visited me the wife would remember when, it was shortly after the Walk here in Oceanside, I think. They met to discuss my book, the lady was very nice as i remember and felt that my story needed to be told and by me and that i would be of greqat service, i was even asked if i would be willing to speak and help, well I said yes. gave them books for their lending library. They would be in touch I was told, the bullshit put off statement. Well they went to the state capital for getting things done, i was asked originally if I would go, yes, however time came and pass and so did their silence. I get emails to help support them. I think not, you can have as much support from me as you have given me.  The Alzheimer's Disease Reasearch Foundation gets my help they at least are doing things.
Had to get this off my chest. It has been burning my ass for a long time now. Many good people work and volunteer for the Alz.org,, but the whole does not even come close to equalling the parts.
I have noticed lately that ai seem to be going away, that is the best way i can say it, seems like me and that around me are starting to part ways more and more each day.
I am rambling on so I will say so long for the time being.

God Bless & Keep You & This Country of Ours!!
joe

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Alzheimer's may start in liver

New Study released. Who know's. I wish i was a mouse.
They seem to have all the luck. Clicking the title should take u there.

God Bless & Keep You & This Country of Ours!!
joe

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Old Mems and New Ones

I have found that old memories aer stil there but they have no time stamp you might say, I can tell you about them, but part of the probelm is that two or three may get mixed together, facts are pretty good, but knowing exactly  which memory they belong to, well you have to guess. New memories, I have only about 2 days worth, they do not stay for long at all. In fact have trouble with telling you about this morning even.

The wife colored her hair today, did it this morning so I am told, I did not notice.  Later we were up in our office, that sounds so officey doesn"t it, just a extra bedroom with the computer.  But that makes us Yuppies we have an office. I was looking at this woman in front of me and knew I thought I knew her but something was not right. I had her turn around and finally my mind put back some old color in her hair and I knew it was Lynn. Said you colored your hair, YES, when this morning, oooh i said.

God Bless & Keep You & This Great Country of Ours!
joe

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I have a new name.

Yes thakns to you all I learned a new word.  I had to google it to find out what it meant, but none the less I like it. So i am KVECHTING, that makes me a KVECHTER. Yes a whinner, but I serve the wine, why do you not bring the cheese and crackers to the table?

Finally some of you let loose with what bothers you and I am glad, that is waht my blog is about, not only my journey and pain straight out, but you response straight out and back. No holds barred here. Do not be afraid of hurting my feelings with what you say, because I surely have no problem fighting back if it is called for.

I just want the real story about those of us in this World of Ours, told. Not by "experts", "researchers", yes "caregivers", etc. But by US!!! Yes you suffer the pains of helping us and watching us waste away to mere shadows of a one time person. Too many of those in my world are too afraid to say anything or are in denial and just do not want to tell anything.  Well we SUFFER greatly, we die many times, each day we die a little more, we forget who people are includdding our selves. I do not think you can really understand the anger and frustration of this. Sitting down to eat and you forgt how to use the fork or even what the fuck you are doing at the table. My own wife scares the shit out of me at time when she comes up to me, because at that moment, I have no idea who she it or what the hell she is doing in my house.

We do not go out much, I am afraid to leave my house or yards, because I may not return here, this is my safe place for me.

Well you all be good to yourselves.

God Bless & Keep You & This Country of Ours!!
joe

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What Do You Want To Hear?

As readers of this thing, I would lkei to know what it is you want to hear about from me. I feel like I have reached a point on constatnntly reapeting myself. True or not I do not know.  My wife informs me we are in 2011, well I still am back in 2009 I think, because time does not seem to have moved forward for me or I have not gone with it. Maybe that is good, you all are getting older and I am staying the same. What a horrible thought that means I have to stay where I am at. I do not like where I am at, i dont even know when someone comes or goes in my hourse or even who is here at times. Ideas, thoughts whatever from you would help.

I did write to Dr. Phil to try and get a show on those of us who suffer, not the medical or caregiver or research side, but us the Walking Dead to hear our voice, but like the answer my wife got from Oprah, silence nothing back. I guess we are not worth talking to or about. No wonder so many actually just give up and call inside not to be heard from again, I can relate to that now, not before but now I can. We are throw aways no doubt in my mind any longer. Even my friend Dr. Sivack whose blog I invade at times no longer writes me, eveb those who are with Alz Org that are supposedly friends or want my involment , nothing just the quietness of silence. But people have their own lives to live and deal with. I have grown tired and wiery, take care my friends.

God Bless & Keep You & This Country of Ours!!!!
joe

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The new pic is the whole fam damily. Wishing you all the best for the New Year and thanking you for your continued support and words.

I have having more problems with the old brain, new cells are disappering. I now have to ask if I have eaten because I cannot remember. It is getting harder for me to tell you things and keep it kind of level. My reality is no longer what it was. I have come to a thought that AD is a number of types of dementia which would I think explain why we all progress differently and caring signs of different so called stagess at one time. I find that I sshake more violently now even typing, just time moves.

My brain has just blanked out.

God Bless & Keep You & This Country of Ours!
joe

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Hello to all as we near the end of this year. I am still in February I have no idea where the rest of this time has gone or what has happended. As some of you know I attend a 12 step group and have for centuries to fight my disease of alcohol and am still sober some 37 years. I was at a ongoing meeting on Christmas Eve, we have what they call marathon meetings around certain holidays to add extra support, what made this special to me and has caused me to wonder if we have the stages of AD right, yes we have it starts and you die correct, but the inbetween seeems to be not so straight forward. I know I have written on my blog the stages, others have, Alz Org has, but you folks, my experience and what happended Christmas Eve tell me in my mind at least that there is no set inbetween stages actually, that we experience similiar things to a greater or lesser degree as suffers. I man shared at the meeting that his father had passed in the last week from AD and he was happy for him and said how he felt. I fortunately had the oppportunity to talk with the gentleman after the meeting, hugged him and told him I was glad his dad had been set free. We looked at each other and I know he was confused, hell I know that feeling, so I gave him my card that has my book info on it. We talked about how his dad was diagnosed about 3 years ago with it, for most of the time he was level had some problems then came the LINE CROSSING, 4 months ago when we knew no one and went downhill and died in the 4 month period from AD. He and I feel the same if we can prevent ourselves (he does not have it yet) from getting to that line to end it before. He saw the suffering of his father and the destruction on the family and does not want to go through that or put the family through it. Unfortunately his mother is at some point in the disease, where?????? Another lady joined us and told about her parents dying from AD a number of years ago and as I listened I could hear that her parents did not follow the so called stages either. Yes they had portions of them but kind of out of order. I see that in myself and think what master mind is comming up with this stuff. Maybe we need to revist how the disease really progresses, the middle part, we know that it starts and then we die. I know for me this is long, but I was very much touched and moved by these folks, I could see their suffering, but they were able to understand to a point my side. Especially when we talked of how they could get away from it and here I was at this meeting still getting support to help me not drink and I brought along old Mr. AD, i cannot get away from it not even a second.

Well I need to shut up, take care of yourselves and if I forget, Have A Very Happy New Year one and all.

God Bless & Keep You & This Country of Ours!!!
joe

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Foggy Days

Hello to al I know it has been ahwile. Lately I have been noticing that I feel more and more like I am in a fog, I am aware that I am here but I am not reallly here. A very strange feeling. It is like being lost but not. I am not sure what this means except that I feel and Lynn has noticed lately that the slope has become steeper and with my round butt I am sliding a little quciker.

The article I was in posted on my blog, had errors and I have tried to get the corrected but of course neither the writter Lillian Cox or the Editor of the Coast News has had the well less than knowing someithing nice to say the balls to contact me back.  We met with someone from the San Diego chapter of the Alz Org awhile ago about getting involved and geting us a voice, boy they are just as quiet.

They say I think it goes, "Silence is Golden", if that is the case the deafening silence I am getting from those above and from anyone outthere trying to get us a voice, my house should be sinking from the gold bars that it is loaded with. Or at least I should be able to go to Mc Donalds for dinner.

I need to go now. Take care of yourself.

God Bless & Keep You & This Country of Ours!!!
joe

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Come & Join Us!!!!

Thank you for sending a message to the President. There is true strength in numbers and we need all the help we can get. Will you take a few moments to send out the message below? You can simply copy and paste it into a new email.

Again, thank you for your support.

Sincerely,
Brendan Burns
Associate Director, Advocacy
Alzheimer's Association


Dear Friend,
As you probably know, I'm an advocate in the fight against Alzheimer's disease. Right now there is a bill that has passed Congress that has the potential to change the course of Alzheimer's Disease.

The National Alzheimer's Project Act would launch a coordinated campaign within the federal government to overcome Alzheimer's disease. It would create a national strategic plan for America's 6th leading cause of death with clear objectives, accountability, and timelines.

Please send a message to President Obama asking him to sign NAPA. or go to www.alz.kintera.org/President

Thank you for your support,
joseph

Your message was sent to:

President Barack Obama

As you know, National Alzheimer's Project Act (S.3036) was recently passed by both the Senate and House of Representatives. As an Alzheimer's Association advocate, I respectfully ask that you sign the National Alzheimer's Project Act into law without delay.


The National Alzheimer's Project Act would launch a coordinated campaign within the federal government to overcome Alzheimer's disease. It would create a national strategic plan for America's 6th leading cause of death with clear objectives, accountability, and timelines. NAPA establishes an inter-agency Advisory Council that will coordinate and evaluate all federal efforts on Alzheimer research, care, institutional services, and home- and community-based programs. The national plan with outcomes, recommendations, and priority actions, must be updated and reported to Congress annually.

On behalf of the 5.3 million Americans currently living with Alzheimer's and their more than 11 million caregivers, thank you for your commitment to fighting Alzheimer's disease. I look forward to hearing from you regarding the enactment of the National Alzheimer's Project Act.

Sincerely,
Joseph Potocny
5435 Lariat Way
Oceanside, CA 92057-5517

PS> We look forward to your help.
God Bless & Keep You & This Country of Ours!!!!!
joe

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Hello to all this day. My wife who has been my main caregiver and has been home with me for almost the last year is now working again.  She is working as a CAREGIVER, thats right and her first client, well this is jus a kick is an elderly man with, yes you got it AD. The woman is a glutten for punishment.

She has been away now several days home in the evening and I plain do not like it. She is my rock with this, but I guess she is needed other places as well. I feel very uncomfortable over it. I could bitch, but I am going to try and restrain my dislike of the matter. Still have my mother in law here with me, but not the same. I feel lost without Lynn. But she is needed elsewhere at this time.

God Bless & Keep You & This Country of Ours!!!!!
joe

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Here is hoping that you all had a wonderful day yesterday and stayed safe. As for me I helped to expand my stature in life, I ate.

I had an interview with a journalist sometime this week that is doing a two part piece in the local paper here on me. I guess she was promted by my post of Who Speaks For Us. We discussed my anger in the posting and she cam to understand that I was not against boobs, but the fact that there really is very little media about us. We talked about how we are throw aways. I also expressed my disappointment in the Alz Org for not being more media concious. Walks are great, working quietly with lawmakers to get things moving is nice, but without hard media coverage does not help that much. NOTICE we now have a pill that will help about 70% of those who take it not to get AIDS, is that not nice for those that want same sex and needle sharing.  From about 1983 or so till now we are stopping these folks from dieing (which is great), only 25+ years to help them, of course that was media push and political movement.

But here I stand with over 5.3 million (very low estimate) with AD, and we are THE WALKING DEAD!!!! like it or not that is the plain raw simple truth, known since 1906 well what do we have, meds that may slow things for a short time then down the hill you go. Yes we with dementia are B movie actors, Zombies of the World, Night of the Walking Dead, etc. Yes I am pissed. I will stay that way and continue with your help to get us a VOICE that will not be Silenced.

Each day that butcher in my brain takes more of me, not thin tiny slices anymore but it has widened the blade and the slices arre gettting thicker. I st5umble more, lost in conversations most of the time, sit and my brain goes off somewher and leaves the body here just fixed. I believe that I am starting to have ciesures not the roll on the ground type but where my mind just flakes. It is getting harder to post, the things come to my head, but get lost before I can write them and I sit here trying to figure out why I am at the computer and just get up and walk away.Everyday living is becoming a task, simple crap just is major, the fun is leaving. I now no the rages of this disease and the loss of who people really are.
My once strong strength to concentrate so I could talk is weaking quickly and I can be pulled off subject in a second and not be able to return. Right now, I am alone and the house is quiet, so I can talk to all of you, but it has taken since about 6 this morning to put this together. This blog has become me and I guess my crusade to awaken people that we do exist and that they very well may join us shortlly unless there is such an out cry that people move, THIS IS NOT AN OLD PEOPLES DISEASE, there are those that were born the same year as me that are a cpl of years dead now from AD. I am onl 66 now, stat wise about 2-4 yeras before I get the hell out of here.

Take care of yourselves and be good to each other.

God Bless & Keep You & This Country of Ours!!!
joe

PS that goes for all those on this planet.

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Well Good Morning World! Yes it is me again you lucky people.

I have been puzzled, confused or whatever over something. You caregivers out their and even you suffers can help me with this. Ther are days that I get up and ready to take on the wolrd and my brain in on fire. The all of a sudden i am like, Robby the robot in Forbiden Planet all my circuts start to short out and I am just plain fricken out of it. I do not understand this, most of the time I kind of walk on eggs because I am not sure where I am or how I feel or what is taknig place in my brain. Have any of you seen or experienced this? It is really concerning. Kind of like here today, gone in a minute. Well I am 66 today, who would have thunk it, not me. Still a pain in the ass about things.
Food no longer intersets me either. Eat or don't eat ok by me. The food just does not hold any enticement I think that is the world anylonger. Things I loved to eat just do nothing for me. I have to be reminded now or asked about eating, not part of my list today. Oh well starting to ranble.

Take care of yourselves.

God Bless & Keep You & This Country of Ours!!!!!
joe

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Just A Note

This is to let you know that my book is now available online at Amazon.com and BarnesandNobles. Kindle and Nookbook electronic downloads are available as well.

This Saturday past, we had a Memory Walk here in Oceanside and it went well. Old fleet of foot here sat on his fat you know what, bad feet. Did get to me a wonderful lady, Cheryl, who lives in the area and follows my blog, nice to put a face on a name.

Bye for now.

God Bless & Keep You & This Country of Ours!
joe

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I Can Take Directions???????

I was told do not shoot the refrigerator.  Last hunting trip it was still alive and well. I just look straight in and not at the botoom creatures. They call but I do not listen I just hear them, kind of like your kids do.

Went and saw my shrink today and we changed meds again, or actually I did.  Told him the last stuff he gave me I think it was lats month was at the hazardous waste dump. It ripped my system apart. Back on the old stuff, feeling fine, except have to get the old poop train back on track and the fund dissolver as well.

having fun refinishing a cedar chest, of course my friened Bobby had to sand the thing, otherwise it would have had mountain ranges and gorges in it. He did a beautiful job on the sanding. Yess my staining and varnishing shills are excellent except the stuff makes me loopy, just what I need.

To all of you who visit here and leave your comments, I deeply appreciate them. You who claim to have nothing to say, I say bull, HELLO works well. Nothing important to add, the fact that you stop by, say hello or whatever is important to me and the rest of this world family we have created.So do not be shy.

God Bless & Keep You & This Country of Ours!!!!!
joe

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What is in YOUR Refrigerator?

A few years ago we had the kitcehn remodeled. New Honey Oak Cabinets, with black nobs with dark cherry wood centers, the walls in a chocolate color, and a Brazilian Cherry Hardwood Floor, Black Stove & Microwave and a Black & Stainless Steel Dishwasher.  Then there sat6 are very old but working fine White Refrigerator. So for years you know who has been bitching for one to match, yes me. Well we just purchased a new one. Reasons, much more energy efficient then are 15 year old one, quieter, it has crushed ice a must for me, but most importantly it is BLACK and matches the decor. Happy am I, yes, except for opening it.

You see the last one the bottom drawers were solid and you could not see what was in them. This one they are CLEAR and you see everything. So what you say, well let me tell you there are creatures in those bins. I open the door and they stare at me, I know they want me. I cannot look at them, sill y yess, but that is how my brain reacts to them.Lynn just says Joe, get over yourself and deal with it. Not so simple, things like this are creeping into my life now and I can only wonder what lies ahead. The part of my brain that still understands logic laughs at me, but there is that growing part that sees and witnesses strange things and seems to have more control. The stuff in thre drawers seems to have eyes and moves when I look at it, not anyone else, just me and that is what really counts is how I feel about it.Well I guess I will just have to outfit myself for hunting when I go to the refrig that way I am prepaired for any attack.

Thank you all for being here for me.

God Bless & Keep You & This Country of Ours!!
joe


PS: PLEASE NOTE IN MEMORY OF PHOTOS NOW HAVE THEIR OWN PAGE!!!!!!!!

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As The Present Fades

I am still amazed at this point that I can still converse with you and tell you how things are going in my journey or battle if you will. In the beginning and still now i am prepared for the mental walkings and goings but I was never prepaired for the physical problems.  Walking with a swagger, actually kind of a stumble and hunched, feeling icky most of the time, getting exttermely upset around people and sweaty like a pig, shaking like i do, not able to hold things all the time, just not ready for this crap.

I find my world in fading in and out now. I recognize family and people and suddenly they start to become someone else. Same person standing there but my brain seems to switch off and step back and say who the fuck is that. I am finding this to be happening more and more, I feel like i am fading away from Joe and going somewhere and I cannot stop it anylonger. I really wish I would hear from others in this world of mine and what they are going through and how they feel. It is really a lonely place, yes I have people around me that care and help, not the same, they are not here with me, in my reality such as it is.

I must go now my mind is confused and i am getting very angry.

God Bless You & This Country of Ours!
joe

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This Comment Deserves Posting Status

The following comment deserves to be used as a post. This is what I have tried to get others that were invited as posters to do. I share my side, you share yours.

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "About the parboiling":

Good morning Lynn and Joe. I can certainly relate to this situation. Unfortunately, memory is not the only effect of this disease but also logic,reasoning, and EGO are noticably effected. We have one and a half acres of lawn which we have a good sized tractor for mowing. My husband refuses to allow me to mow with the tractor and always says that I wouldn't be able to handle it. The truth is I used to do the mowing with the tractor but he claims that he doesn't remember that I ever did. The truth has come out that he really feels it is the one thing he still does and doesn't want me taking over it. We have fought and fought over this over recent years now and I can't seem to win. His abilities to maneuver and control the tractor are noticably impared but I still cannot get him to concede to allow me to do the mowing. He is aware that he has problems with doing the mowing and procrastinates just as long as he possibly can. The best plan that I have come up with is to use the hand mower to cut the two areas that are potentially dangerous with the tractor. When I first started doing this he even continued to take the tractor over the same areas that I had already mowed just because he resented the idea that I felt it was something he could no longer do. I just can't seem to get across to him that just having him safe and uninjured by my side day after day is so much more important to me than him proving to himself that he can still do certain things. I think we could all benefit from hearing from others who have faced these challenges and how they were able to successfully navigate through these types of situations. Thank God Joe's experience was his parboiled fanny and not a fall from the roof! I pray that my husband's experience will only be damage to his tractor and not to his body.
May God bless us and guide us through our journey of life, whatever it brings our way!



Posted by Anonymous to Living with Alzhiemers' at 6:50 AM


God Bless & Keep You & This Country of Ours!!!
joe

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Par Boiled Fanny

Yes yours truly master of home repairs and as dense as a tree was at it again today. One needs to know that me and ladders do not belong in the same universe, I get on one and by the time I reach the second step on it I am 30 pounds lighter. Today we started on clean the outside of the house, redoing the pation and th driveway. Well do to my immense brain power I got on the roof to wash down the roof and upstairs portion of the house.  Well sitting on the roof was a bit on the hot side. Did you know that when you spray down a roof that the sun has been beating down on the water turns to steam, well I do now. As this small river came rushing down the roof towards my secure spot, it reached my butt, yess my backside, and it cooked it. I felt like I was sitting ing boiling water, guess what DAH i was. I am fighting this disease the best I can, but the longer we go down the road, the more I find out what I do not know that I thought I knew, before I found out that I did not have the first idea about it.

Lately when I get up I am not able to finish crossing that bridge from sleep to being fully awake. I was talking with my ologist this week and he asked if I felt like I was is a fog.  Well the answer is yes, the above is proof of that.Things are just not clear to me any more and I stop more in the middle of things then I did before and wind up doing something else. Each day I decide to write on here and say I should write things down before I post so I remeber what it is that I want to say. GREAT IDEA, problem is I sit down to do it and forget what it was I was going to do, welcome to dreamland.

Well I need to stand right now so you all be good to yourselves and THANK You for helping me win the new award posted on our blog. This is your victory as well.

God Bless & Keep You & This Country of Ours!!!!
joe

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You Are Needed!!!!!!!!!!

-------- Original Message --------

Subject:	Thanks for Taking Action!
Date:	Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:55:15 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Brendan Burns, Alzheimer's Association
Reply-To:	Brendan Burns, Alzheimer's Association
Organization:	Alzheimer's Association
To:	jolynn1@cox.net

Joseph, Thanks for taking action! We need your help to gather more petition signatures. Please take a moment to forward the message below to your family and friends. It's quick, it's easy and it will only take a few moments to make a big difference. Thank you, Brendan Burns Subject Line: It's Time for a Breakthrough Dear friends, Alzheimer's disease steals the future from millions of Americans. It robs spouses of their companions and children of their parents and grandparents; it erodes the health and financial resources of caregivers. I just signed a petition calling on Congress to make Alzheimer's disease a national priority. Will you add your voice? http://www.alz.org/petition Your signature will be delivered to Congress on September 21, 2010 World Alzheimer's Day. Together, we can make Alzheimer's a national priority.

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