My Travel Through Alzheimer's Disease #12 - Some VERY good news

Monday, May 4th, "Star Wars Day," I had  PET/CT scan with imaging. This is used to define  (Brainisorders): Dementia/Alzheimer’s: Differentiating Alzheimer's from other forms of dementia.

My Doctor sent me this on May 7.

In other words, Kisunla did 

what it was designed to do.

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My Travel Through Alzheimer's Disease #11

My my 11th infusion of kisunla was on March 17. It's the last in this round. Over all, the infusions have brought my brain's ability to: 

type better than before the treatments.
remember things in the past, but not a lot of them.

I'm still waiting for my brain to 

find things that are in there faster.
remember where I put my phone.

I have an appointment with my neurology doctor on April 6. I'll go through the same "game I play every time." It includes me answering questions about dates, time of the appointment, the doctor's name, where I live, etc. The good news is, so far, is I get more answers correct than before I started this process. I think my last "game time" was higher than some other times. 

Here's to continuously improved scores.  

I suspect I'll have another MRI next month. 

Stay tuned...

CURRENT SCORE:

donanemab-azbt (Kisunla) - 5 + ALZEHIMER DISEASE - 0

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Thoughts on my 76th Birthday

 

My mother wrote a Shutterfly Book about her life. This is how she described my birth.

Although I was small at birth, by the time I was in school, I was one of the biggest. That was me until my Junior year at high school.

I broke my right wrist where the hand and arm meet when I fell into the drain pipe. I was in a cast for three months. The cast was so soft by then that doctor cut the cast off with a pair of sewing scissors.

I fell off the backyard wall on Thanksgiving in 1959. I was playing hide and seek and didn't want to get be seen. When we went to San Diego's Military Hospital, they x-raid the wrong arm. When Senior Chief Pettey Officer Owen Downing, my dad, heard that mistake, let's just say I moved to the front of every line.

I was in Junior High when Barbara, my sister, pulled on the jump rope with a group of girls on our street. I would have exited without tripping, if Barbara hadn't pulled it straight. I fell against our car and broke one of my right incisor tooth. Because of the reflection from incandescent photographs off the silver cap on that tooth, I stopped smiling in photographs. When I forgot, the right side of my mouth was nothing more than a flash of light. The silver cap was replaced with a tooth-like cap for my High School Senior Pictures.

On the Saturday before my Freshman year's football practices began, several of my friends were playing Three Flies Up up in out back yard. I needed one catch to be the hitter. The batter hit the ball high, but it was headed for the block wall that edged our back yard. I was the only catcher brave (AKA DUMEST) to try. I dropped to my knees when I got close to the wall to stop my movement toward the wall. I didn't hit the wall. I did hit the sharp edge of a rock. This trip to San Diego's Military Hospital. One of the helpers was sent in to wash the wound and shave my hairy knee. "Oops," delivering in a shoft voice were the last sounds I heard before the helper left the room. The doctor came in and commented as he stitched the wound about the straightness of part of the cut on my knee. When they took the stitches out, a knob of skin that stuck out of the wound area. It took three years of my sliding into bases in high school baseball practices and games to grind enough of the extra skin off to that area to smooth it.

In closing, most of my life has not been as traumatic as described above. 

Hmmm. There was the day that my dad brought home leather football helmets when El Cajon Valley High School finally stopped making freshmen wear them. As I recall, my friends and I put them on and began throwing rocks at a hornet's nest. I REALLY DIDN'T THINK HORETS COULD GET INTO A HELMET. I found out they can, and they don't stop injecting venom util they're venom sac is empty. My face swelled up until you couldn't see my eyes. I wish Benadryl (diphenhydramine) had been OVC in 1959.

Next week I'll finish MOST of my injury stories.

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A History of Injury - Part 2

 

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A History of Injury updated: School Years

 

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Update on My Back and My December Infusion

 

My Back

In 2005, I had my second back surgery: L5 Laminectomy & partial discectomy. The surgeon said he considered removing more, but decided not to, since it may be 5 to 10 years before it would be needed. I had no problems for 19 years.  I have a problem now.  The curve in the spine is not supposed to be that "spiney."

I'm scheduled to start physical therapy on January 28 for an evaluation. It could be once or twice a week for 9 weeks. Unfortunately, it says the therapy is listed for "Diagnosis: Right Hip Pain."

I do have right hip pain, but the last time I looked at a human anatomy book, hip and spine were not synonyms.

This is a link to the best explanation I've ever seen about that surgery. 

https://tinyurl.com/2asjuebh

I apologize for the dim color on parts of the LAMINECTOMY color. 

My December Infusion

Next infusion January 19.

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Patterns on Pages - Traveler's HOT L Vol. 4.

This is the link to a VERY thorough review   https://www.crdowning.com/new-page-4 

    

    The Day the Earth Shattered, the catastrophic seismic event is worse than anyone predicted. Eighty percent of humans die from destruction, disease, starvation, and suicide. Civilization is erased. 
    Live the struggle as five alien Time Synchronizers for Earth recruit illiterate two humans from the far future and return them to “this time” where two teachers begin a long overdue lesson. 
    Can the recruits return and decipher the patterns on pages of books in the NoCal’s only Li’bry and save humanity?

The Story

The book begins with a series of vignettes chronicling disasters "The Day the Earth Shattered" caused. Here's the one that was edited out of the book... but onto the back cover. 

   It was “the season” and cruise ships were scattered throughout the coastal waters of northern Europe and Scandinavia. Thelma and Florence were strolling the Lido deck as they waited for their seating time in the Royal Hall for dinner.
   “Isn’t this pleasant,” Thelma said.
   “Quite. Oh, wait. Do you see that?” Florence pointed to a swell off the port side.
   “My, but that’s a bit of a large one, isn’t it?”
   Before Florence could respond, the massive Jewel of the Fjords slid down into the trough that preceded the arrival of a tsunami. All three thousand seven hundred and nineteen souls aboard reached for something to hold onto.

   Within a minute, the cruise ship rose, flipped, and landed upside down in the icy waters of the North Sea. Fifty-foot-high walls of water washed away coastal cities in northern Europe, the United Kingdom, and Scandinavia. Portions of reinforced military structures were all that remained after the floodwaters receded.

As I considered other consequences, I suspected that public education would be a low priority in a world where survival itself is questionable. Since that was a valid concern, how would luxuries like reading be sustained? I decided learning to read would become so uncommon that the value of books would be far as sources of energy for cooking and heating.

In my apocalypse, there are pockets of humans where time synchronizers Tempus and Epoch hope to find individuals to return to what is our present. Once in the 21st century, they learn to read and gain perspective on the world as a whole.

NorCal is the first population selected for this training. One factor influencing the choice is the presence of a Lib'ry full of books of all kinds.

Tempus and Epoch break Traveler's HOT L rules to convince Marin and Lincoln to return to the past. They have less trouble convincing Dawn, a second-grade teacher, and Courtney, a high school history teacher, to help the time travelers.

Learning to read, trying to navigate sinks and toilets, flying from the west coast to Washington, DC, visiting Monticello in the 1800s, along with cramming a lifetime of ideas into less than one month of real-time sets the stage for the future-dwellers return to their home time.

Here's an example of something you might not have thought about.

   Courtney and Dawn sat in armchairs in their room at the HOT L. Lincoln and Marin sat on the edge of the bed facing

them.

   “Can-I-ask-one-last-question?” Marin asked, her words running together in her haste to be heard before she was separated from her teachers for the last time.

   “Is something wrong?” Dawn asked.

   “I . . . I don’t know.”

   “Ask your question,” Lincoln said.

   Marin turned toward him. He nodded.

   “Why do so many stars hide from the people in your cities?”

   “Oh, Marin, the stars aren’t—”

   “It’s the lights,” Courtney interrupted. “You can’t see the stars because of what’s called ‘light pollution.’ Some stars are

brighter than other stars. Most cities have many, many lights on all night. So many lights are on that it brightens part of the sky and you can’t see the less bright stars.”

   The looks on the faces of Marin and Lincoln were visual testimony of their lack of understanding.

   “Help me here, please,” Courtney said to Dawn.

I invite you to live the experience of four lifetimes. Take a trip from the future to your present and your past and back again. After all, you need to find out how well Marin and Lincoln fulfill their assignments!

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