I thought my brain fog was due to stress – but it was dementia
Jim Rogers thought his brain fog and absent-mindedness was due to stress or a side effect of cholesterol medication. Then he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at just 55.
Dementia
This is not like the dementia you see on TV or the movies
Now, having lived with dementia for several years, I can share that one of my greatest concerns is not my memory loss. This is what it is instead.
How Wally Lewis plans to push past his dementia diagnosis
Rugby league icon Wally Lewis has opened up about his struggles with probable CTE two years after his diagnosis.
I couldn’t finish sentences – how I discovered I had dementia at 57
It wasn’t until a friend mentioned to Pam Eade that her husband was often finishing sentences for her that she found out she had dementia.
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