Friday, March 4, 2011

GOOD NEWS KIDS!!!

AN ARTICLE IN TODAY'S ORLANDO SENTINEL HAD SOME POSITIVE NEWS FOR ALL OF MY CHILDREN,  AND PERHAPS YOURS TOO!  IT STATED IN PART, THAT INHERITING ALZHEIMER'S FROM YOUR MOTHER IS MUCH WORSE THAN INHERITING IT FROM YOUR FATHER.   ONLY HAVING A MOTHER WITH THE DISEASE APPEARED TO INFLUENCE THE DEGREE OF BRAIN ATROPHY. SO, HOPEFULLY, THIS HEART BREAKING DISEASE WILL END WITH DAD. NOW, ON A TOTALLY DIFFERENT SUBJECT, IT APPEARS THAT BRISK WALKS MAY BOOST MEMORY IN OLDER ADULTS.  I DON'T KNOW ABOUT "BRISK" WALKS, BUT I DO KNOW THAT MIKE TAKES TWO WALKS A DAY WITH OUR TWO CAVALIER KING CHARLES SPANIELS, AND SPENDS MANY HOURS OUTSIDE IN THE YARD PULLING WEEDS, RAKING LEAVES, AND WATERING THE LAWN. I WISH I HAD HALF HIS ENERGY!!!  I'M ALSO NOT SURE WHICH OF HIS MEDS. OR VITAMINS ARE HELPING HIM RIGHT NOW, BUT I HAVE NOTICED (AS HAVE MY CHILDREN) THAT HE SEEMS TO BE MUCH SHARPER WHEN PLAYING GAMES NOW. HE HAS EVEN WON SOME (LEGITIMATELY TOO)!!  SO FOR TODAY, THINGS ARE LOOKING UP, AND I AM PRAYING THAT THEY CAN STAY THAT WAY-AT LEAST FOR A WHILE LONGER. JUST ME

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