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@garry. Problems with #hearing was one of my father's first symptoms of #Alzheimer's. It happened decades before the #diagnosis, & is what #doctors call a #prodrome, an early indicator of something wrong, of a #disease in progress, not fully visible, just waiting to appear. I write about the audiologist who asked my mother how long she & my father had been married, and when she told the doctor decades, he replied that my father didn't want to listen to her anymore. Rage. https://weinsteinandmiller.com
Finding the Right WordsFinding the Right Words by Cindy Weinstein and Dr. Bruce MillerFinding the Right Words is an invaluable guide for families dealing with a life-changing diagnosis. In chapters of profound and sometimes humorous remembrance, Weinstein relies on literature to describe the shock of her father's diagnosis and his loss of language and identity. Writing in response to Weinstein's deeply personal narrative, Dr. Miller describes the neurological processes responsible for the symptoms displayed by her father.