A New Perspective on Alzheimer's Disease.

Please read my article at the following link-- The Missing Piece in Understanding Alzheimer's Disease

I am going to give it my all to try to prevent this devastating disease for myself and in the end I hope it helps many others as well.

 I have a difficult time “letting myself out and letting others in”—sometimes a common experience for people with Alzheimer’s disease. I have also nicknamed this devastating disease the” portable plexi-glass phone booth” syndrome because at the end stage of this disease individuals who have Alzheimer’s are in their own “private world.” This may have been their MO throughout their life. Most individuals don’t even know they are living in a “portable plexi-glass phone booth”. I was one of those individuals! Given what I perpetually show to the outside world, no one would have ever suspected my deepest feelings. I have now reconciled this in myself and I am on the journey to prevent this disease. How? I use the imagery of “Stepping Out of a Portable Plexi-Glass Phone Booth” to step out of my intensely private feelings and connect fully with people. It’s my greatest soul discovery!

This year, I have made it my priority to publicize this new perspective on Alzheimer’s disease for two reasons:

My good friend Rita was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at age 59 and it has been devastating watching this cruel disease attack and take away her mind and watching her family suffer.

Because of it"s urgency: Statistics reveal that someone is diagnosed with dementia every seven seconds worldwide and one in eight will get Alzheimer’s by age 65. And as noted in the CBS blog, in 2011, 10,000 baby boomers will turn 65 every single day. That means over the next four decades, the number of diagnosed Alzheimer’s cases could triple!

As a baby boomer myself, I’m passionate about spreading the word so that individuals can determine if this new perspective resonates with them.

I am optimistic that Alzheimer’s can be prevented and cured, but I believe we first must understand how it sparks in the body and then do the work to prevent it. That is my life’s work as a registered nurse and healing practitioner.

I will be blogging about my adventures of trying to prevent Alzheimer’s disease by connecting with others. I will get out of my “private world” everyday. It will be interesting to see what happens each new day as I step out of my “portable plexi-glass phone booth”.  This “new me” is scary but it would be scarier for me to just wake up one day without my memory.

Okay—here we go!!