My Travel Through Alzheimer's Disease #2

In theatrical jargon, 

what follows is  know as an aside.

You might prefer "down the rabbit hole."

I apologize for the weird font type and size changes. I can't figure out how to control them because they all look good now.

My first teaching assignment was a 3/4% contract at Monte Vista in 1973. I graduated from Monte Vista. While I was in college, I was a paid assistant in the Monte Vista science department while doing half of my Student-Teaching assignment there. At the end of the 1973 school year, the principal of Monte Vista wrote a note to the person in charge of hiring new teachers saying he wanted to hire me without a district interview. 

The first time I interviewed for a job in education was my hiring at Point Loma Nazarene University. I got that job.

 The only other job I interviewed for was Great Oak High School in Temecula in 2004. I got that job, too. I retired from high school science teaching from there in 2012.

I continued to teach extension courses in for Azusa Pacific University's teacher credential program in San Diego and Temecula until 2019. 

I worked part-time, teaching the required upper-division writing class for PLNU's School Of Nursing, until I had a lacunar stroke on December 31, 201 at 3:30 PM 9. I stopped teaching for Azusa Pacific at the same time.

The hardest result of the lacunar stroke to live with is the feeling that there is a constriction brace on my right foot and ankle. 

I began writing stories when I worked at Monte Vista. One story won an award in a competition for teacher-writers. I kept writing when I was at Point Loma Nazarene University. A different story was published in a book produced by the PLNU. I also had different stories published in anthologies of science fiction stories in 2018 and 2019.

What's your point, Chuck?

I like to write. 

I'm going to continue to write as long as possible. I'm hoping it's a long time. That hope is based on the massive amount of research being done on Alzheimer's disease. Some of the work now in clinical trials is getting dramatically positive results.

I was accepted into a study whose main purpose is to determine how safe the study drug is and the degree to which it works to alleviate symptoms when given to people with mild to moderates Alzheimer's disease. 

I start the study on April 2, 2025. 

BTY: I chose the symptom "social isolation" referred to last week. That's what I've found myself doing over the past two years. It's not social isolation from me by those around me.

More about Alzheimer's disease next week.   

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