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Alzheimer’s Notes

Personal Story: A Young Man with Alzheimer’s Disease.

by Liz Lewis on April 15th, 2008

OurAlzheimers.com has a feature article When a Mind Begins to Disappear: A Young Family’s Journey to the Dark Side that follows the Mueller family’s journey of change as Jim Mueller developed Alzheimer’s disease. Jim was in his early 30’s when the initial symptoms began…

“When they said Jim had Alzheimer’s, I was in shock,” Jim’s wife, Michelle, quietly recalls. “I mean, I had heard of Alzheimer’s because of President Reagan. And I had worked at one time when I was younger to care for someone with Alzheimer’s (but) I thought that was for people when they got older. And I really didn’t believe it.”

Read their story here…

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