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From: "august" <august_west...@nospam.com>
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Subject: Re: Alzheimer's or Vascular Dementia
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:32:37 -0800
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"august" <august_west...@nospam.com> wrote in message 
news:f7SdncLN_7_gtiTYnZ2dnUVZ_syunZ2d@comcast.com...
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> "June" <NoS...@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
> news:4tydnc9iQd4gXSXYnZ2dnUVZ_r-onZ2d@insightbb.com...
>> I've noticed some posts here discussing Vascular Dementia.
>
> Hi June,   Our LO has vascular dementia, although our young physician used 
> to say she had AD. As time goes on he has come around to agreeing with us 
> about the diagnosis because of the peculiarities of her dementia and 
> remaining abilities are clearly different than someone who has progressive 
> AD.  Our LO had temporal arteritis about 14 years ago which went untreated 
> for a couple months. She almost certainly had some micro strokes at this 
> time. We didn't have any neurological testing done because she had
numerous other more pressing maladies to worry about and frankly we thought
she was going to croak any day.

My writing needed a little editing. I was finished writing when I added the 
sentences about her getting hit by a car at age 70. She didn't live near us 
at the time. The sentence above about us not getting neurological testing 
refers to the time frame while she had temporal arteritis - which was many 
years after her getting hit by the car. Hope this helps make sense of my 
writing.

btw- I always read your postings June, because your experiences with 
dementia always seem to mirror ours.   best,  AW