Early Onset Video

Thanks to C.H. for sharing this video with me.

It's about early onset AD, and ran on a local Maryland news channel. There is a short 10 second commercial before the actual video.



My email back to her-
I'm going to stick that on my blog. It's very accurate as to the frustration of the early diagnosis. I actually flew home and TOOK my mother to the doctor when she was 61 and 62 and said look, I'm scared she's got early onset alzheimers, I used those exact words and the doctor dismissed me. He's like oh she's fine, and my mom was like Oh I'm fine- so that was the end of it.

"I can't put your mother on medicine if she doesn't want to take it, she's an adult." was his remark to me.

I understand, yes she's an adult, and yes she was only 61 or 62, but who knows her better than her daughter, her sister and her best friend? Doctors should listen more and talk less sometimes. We could have saved her years of this frustration had she taken the medication earlier. Just think of the difference in her personality then and now.



The photo today is titled
"If I had only seen it earlier"

I think you get the connection :)