Researchers tracking protein in the brain have noticed
hourly changes in the amyloid beta protein, which has been linked to Alzheimer’s
disease.
Scientists used samples of brain fluid from the cells of 18
patients recovering from traumatic brain injuries.
Researchers found ...
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Closed brain injury
Connie Moore
Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 07:29 AM
I am fairly new to this site. My husband has alzheimers, he is 66 I am 56. I came to this site for support while caring for him with alzheimer's but the more I read the more scared I get. I was in a truck nineteen years ago that was run off the road by a man on drugs. The truck rolled three times and I was knocked out. When I came to and got out of the vechicle I could not get anyone to listen to me that my head was killing me. I was taken to the hospital and they xrayed everything but my head and sent me home. For two weeks I slept sitting in a chair, my head hurt so bad I couldn't stand anything to touch it. Severe blinding headaches and many trips to the doctors I kept telling them something was wrong, I couldn't remember much and as the days passed I became more confused and couldn't remember how to cook or balance a check book. fearing I was going crazy and not being able to get anyone to listen to me, I became suicidal. I tried to plan it but it took days because my memory wasn't working, I was trying to write a note when my daughter caught me.She called my husband and he came home and took me to a doctor that had know me for years. We weren't in his office ten minutes before he told my family which hospital to take me to and that they had to do it quickly because he believed I had a brain injury. We lived in Copperas Cove, Texas and this hospital was in San Antonio, Texas long trip but well worth it. The doctors there did brain scans and a brain mapping, I had a brain bleed, I had pools of blood behind both ears(the reason my head couldn't touch anything). We were told it was a miracle I was alive because it was so severe. I had already lost most of my memory I could only remember my immediate family. I wanted to kiss the doctor because I didn't feel crazy any more, with medication and physical therpy I regained a lot of my memory but so much was lost. I had an associate degree in business and that's gone I don't attended family renunions because I can't remember names of Aunts, Uncle, cousins I grew up with they know what happened and are almost to kind asking every year when I tried to go can I remember now, No I can't it is gone forever as is most of my child hood. I read a lot to reeducate my self and i have releard to type. I have to work very hard to rebuild my lost memory that helps me function everyday. I can read, write and balance a check book most of that is back but I am horrible with names. The reason I wrote this is my greatest fear now is I will develop Alzheimer's everything I read to educate my self to care for my husband who has this now says that i am a prime canitdate for it, it scares me, is there a way I can find out if I am head toward this disease my self? thank you. Connie living in fear of alzheimer's in Texas.
I am fairly new to this site. My husband has alzheimers, he is 66 I am 56. I came to this site for support while caring for him with alzheimer's but the more I read the more scared I get. I was in a truck nineteen years ago that was run off the road by a man on drugs. The truck rolled three times and I was knocked out. When I came to and got out of the vechicle I could not get anyone to listen to me that my head was killing me. I was taken to the hospital and they xrayed everything but my head and sent me home. For two weeks I slept sitting in a chair, my head hurt so bad I couldn't stand anything to touch it. Severe blinding headaches and many trips to the doctors I kept telling them something was wrong, I couldn't remember much and as the days passed I became more confused and couldn't remember how to cook or balance a check book. fearing I was going crazy and not being able to get anyone to listen to me, I became suicidal. I tried to plan it but it took days because my memory wasn't working, I was trying to write a note when my daughter caught me.She called my husband and he came home and took me to a doctor that had know me for years. We weren't in his office ten minutes before he told my family which hospital to take me to and that they had to do it quickly because he believed I had a brain injury. We lived in Copperas Cove, Texas and this hospital was in San Antonio, Texas long trip but well worth it. The doctors there did brain scans and a brain mapping, I had a brain bleed, I had pools of blood behind both ears(the reason my head couldn't touch anything). We were told it was a miracle I was alive because it was so severe. I had already lost most of my memory I could only remember my immediate family. I wanted to kiss the doctor because I didn't feel crazy any more, with medication and physical therpy I regained a lot of my memory but so much was lost. I had an associate degree in business and that's gone I don't attended family renunions because I can't remember names of Aunts, Uncle, cousins I grew up with they know what happened and are almost to kind asking every year when I tried to go can I remember now, No I can't it is gone forever as is most of my child hood. I read a lot to reeducate my self and i have releard to type. I have to work very hard to rebuild my lost memory that helps me function everyday. I can read, write and balance a check book most of that is back but I am horrible with names. The reason I wrote this is my greatest fear now is I will develop Alzheimer's everything I read to educate my self to care for my husband who has this now says that i am a prime canitdate for it, it scares me, is there a way I can find out if I am head toward this disease my self? thank you. Connie living in fear of alzheimer's in Texas.