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My name is Jill. I am asian. I have recently been diagonised with alzheimers. I live in the midlands area. I am 48 yrs. of age. As positive as i am i am finding this hard to deal. The hardest thing is that i am scared of loosing control of my life. I am very independent. I guess i am lucky that both my children are grown up and have got a caring husband although they do not seem to understand how difficult things are for me. They either think this is short term problem or a phase i am going through. They do not realise the constant demands they are making on me and i cannot cope with things as i used to. I have just recently been made redundant from my work. My husabnd is retired but i need to work. I have always thrived on stress and i have often been told that i am a workholic. I need to find another job to keep me sane. I worked as a Development Officer for a voluntary organisation. I loved my job. I don't know if could find employment knowing that i have now got alzheimers. Who wants to employ a person with memory problems? A
Recently I read an article in the Dailymail regards to a new treatment which reverses the process of alzheimers. I cannot find the paper but i would appriciate if some has some more info on this article.
Jill K
My name is Jill. I am asian. I have recently been diagonised with alzheimers. I live in the midlands area. I am 48 yrs. of age. As positive as i am i am finding this hard to deal. The hardest thing is that i am scared of loosing control of my life. I am very independent. I guess i am lucky that both my children are grown up and have got a caring husband although they do not seem to understand how difficult things are for me. They either think this is short term problem or a phase i am going through. They do not realise the constant demands they are making on me and i cannot cope with things as i used to. I have just recently been made redundant from my work. My husabnd is retired but i need to work. I have always thrived on stress and i have often been told that i am a workholic. I need to find another job to keep me sane. I worked as a Development Officer for a voluntary organisation. I loved my job. I don't know if could find employment knowing that i have now got alzheimers. Who wants to employ a person with memory problems? A
Recently I read an article in the Dailymail regards to a new treatment which reverses the process of alzheimers. I cannot find the paper but i would appriciate if some has some more info on this article.
Jill K