The Metamorphosis of This Alzheimer's Caregiver (Part One)

clipped from www.alzheimersreadingroom.com My name is Bob DeMarco, I am an Alzheimer's caregiver. My mother Dorothy, now 93 years old, suffers from Alzheimer's disease. We live our lives one day at a time. I'm fortunate in two ways. I picked great parents, and God and my parents blessed me with an ability to read fast, and absorb information. My brain is wired to view everything as a system. This allows me to see all the parts when I encounter something new, or when I am trying to figure things out. When I first learned my mother was suffering from dementia, I quickly learned you could put everything I knew about dementia and Alzheimer's in a thimble. So, I started reading. The more I learned the more I wanted to know. I learned a great deal about Alzheimer's disease--including the science. It helped me understand a very mystifying disease. It helped me to put a frame around something that is difficult if not impossible to describe. Original content Bob DeMarco, Alzheimer's Reading Room

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Pet Health

And I mean everything.

clipped from blogs.wsj.com So you know the Merck Manual, the trusty reference on health for docs and patients? As of this week, there’s a Merck Manual about pets. The book (full name: The Merck/Merial Manual For Pet Health) is 1,345 pages long, so rather than plow through the whole thing, we cheated a little — we got on the phone with Cynthia Kahn, the editor, and Scott Line, a vet who was co-editor on the book. The factoids came fast and thick. (Merial, by the way, is the Merck/Sanofi-Aventis joint venture in animal health.) Dogs can be poisoned There are vets who operate on fish There’s an animal called a sugar glider? Some cats are compulsive. Rats aren’t just for subways anymore.