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• Norm Mac

  Norm Mac All
  SEEING
  EYE`S
  As the party started, I sat and watch with glee,
  
  ...The children running round, it’s clear for all to see,
  
  That in their little world, a world so full of fun,
  
  Excitement in their eyes, of a future still to come,
  
  The way they look at life, through excited eyes,
  
  Never worrying about tomorrow, today is where it lies,
  
  We can learn so much from them, learn from day today,
  
  That it’s now that really matters, whatever comes our way,
  
  My dementia is invisible; they don’t see what grownups see,
  
  They just see their grandad, as happy as can be,
  
  If only all us grownups, could do the very same,
  
  Just see the person stood there, without dementia`s name,
  
  Best wishes, Norrms and family xxxxxxxxxx
  
  Norm Mac
  
  Hiya, this is a poem i wrote and it was read out at Gloucester Cathedral UK on World Alzheimers day in Septemebr of this year, hope you like it, best wishes, Norrms and family xxxxxxx
  
  SILENT
  
  VOICE`S
  Silent voices shouting everywhere
  
  Silent, yet still rising through the air,
  
  Eyes that look but do not see,
  
  Beating heart inside of me,
  
  Forever wanting their life back,
  
  No more wandering this lonely track,
  
  To talk, to laugh, be understood,
  
  To live their lives as they should,
  
  One year there, next year gone,
  
  Like the setting of the sun,
  
  The Dementia Demon comes along,
  
  Takes away your favourite song,
  
  I have all this yet to come,
  
  Vacant stare, body numb,
  
  But to the end and from the start,
  
  Place your hand around my heart,
  
  Feel it beat inside of me,
  
  Look in my eyes and you will see,
  
  Happy scenes without a tear,
  
  And my silent voice you will hear

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• Jasmine Elisa Beltran

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Imagine a World without Alzheimer’s: New NIH Study is Currently Recruiting Participants

Imagine a World without Alzheimer’s: New NIH Study is Currently Recruiting Participants

by RICHARD SHANK on OCTOBER 21, 2010

Researchers from around the country are collaborating on the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Grand Opportunity (ADNI GO) study. ADNI GO, a landmark research study sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is examining the sequence and timing of events at the initial onset of mild cognitive symptoms. It may help scientists better identify who is at risk for AD, as well as the effectiveness of potential prevention and treatment strategies. Specifically, researchers are looking for volunteers between the ages of 55 and 90 who may be transitioning from normal cognitive aging to an early stage of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a condition that may progress to Alzheimer’s disease. This two-year, $24 million study focuses for the first time on people experiencing the very earliest complaints of memory problems that affect their daily activities. ADNI GO expands on the groundbreaking Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), the largest and most comprehensive study of its kind to date, and will continue efforts to identify biomarkers that can help build a greater understanding of the progression of AD.

More than 5.1 million Americans age 65 and older are currently living with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and that number is expected to increase to 13.5 million by 2050. These numbers will only continue to grow with our aging population unless new prevention and treatment strategies are discovered. As you well know, Alzheimer’s disease research is becoming more urgent than ever.

We have included this on our blog in the hopes that readers will pass it along to potential participants or organizations who might be able to partner with the researchers.

“Imagine a world without Alzheimer’s” is the theme of the ADNI GO study recruitment campaign and they are honored to have Maya Angelou, noted poet and author, supporting their recruitment efforts by participating in radio and print public service announcements.

More information about the study is available at http://www.adcs.org/Studies/ImagineADNI.aspx. The website contains more detailed information about the study, newsletters providing updates on the project, and contact information for research sites near you.

THE LONELINESS OF DEMENTIA

Norm Mac

October 30 at 2:02am

Norm Mac:

The Loneliness Of Dementia

Imagine this:
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You have the most loving supportive family on your side and a wealth of friends that are with you every step of the way, yet you still feel like the loneliest person in the world.

Quite a statement I know, but this is just one of the many ways dementia can make you feel. I am so lucky in many ways yet sometimes I feel as if nobody understands. I just know that’s because it must be so very hard for them to put themselves in my shoes for a day. To be told that you have a brain wasting disease and at the moment there is no known cure is without doubt one of the worst things anybody can be told.

Sometimes I sit in my own little world, remembering things from days gone by. I remember my old house as a child and how I would walk up the backstreet hoping it was chips and pea soup for tea. As I walk in I can see dad sat there “In his chair” his feet in front of a roaring fire. As I look across the room I can see mum, busy at the cooker frying his sausages for tea, he always got his tea first as he was a hardworking man my mum always said to me. My wonderful grandmother would be there to visit bringing her homemade pies and cakes ready for the weekend feast. We didn’t have much but we were very rarely hungry.

Then I try to remember back to where I first met my “Angel “Elaine and tears fill my eyes. It’s like trying to see though a very thick fog and every now and again the fog clears just a fraction and I see glimpses of Elaine and me walking hand in hand round the reservoir on a summers day, the smell of freshly cut grass and the blue clear still water with gentle ripples dancing across the top, all following each other in turn until they eventually run out of strength., reminding me that life is very similar and eventually we will all slow down.

My mind then shifts to try and remember later and suddenly I can hear children’s voices, screaming with laughter and as I look through the fog I can just barely make out me pushing the swings in turn and trying to get them as high as possible.

Then NOTHING!!

A blackness envelopes my brain as I try with all my might to try and remember something else. The pain is etched on my face as I screw my face up tight to try and remember just one more little thing!! But not tonight, that’s it for tonight, memories gone, memories of times gone past which are slowly but surely being taken from me as I sit here, how cruel this disease is.
As I look across the room I see my darling Elaine giggling at something on the television and my mood lifts, but the loneliness stays in the pit on my stomach. How can a man or woman have so much yet feel so desperately lonely? The only answer is because of Dementia and the fear of losing the battle against it. Not only does the dementia win but it takes with it, all your precious memories, hopes dreams and locks them up in a very dark place.

Well not my memories, and not my dreams and hopes for the

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