How it started

Just getting started on this blogging stuff but I felt like it might be a good way for the friends of ours to keep up with how Jan is doing . If your looking at this blog you know that for several years Jan has been dealing with Alzeheimers. On May 5, 2005 we started seeing a neurologist because Jan was having problems that we hadn't seen before. Problems like writing checks, driving and dressing. Her particular disease is affecting the front temporal area which is the administrative area. Things that she has learned, she is forgetting. Names of people, friends and family she still knows. Some of these problems were present five years ago and of course the condition is progressive and the situation is much more severe now. As with most forms of dementia, diagnosis occurs in the later stages. I diagnose her condition as Picks Disease. The doctors will not try to nail it down, but her symptoms certainly reflect "Picks" disease. At this time Jan seems to be a very healthy. My promise to her was that she would be with me long after she wouldn't know she was with me. I do have to recognize that a time will come when I can't take as good of care for her as alternatives.