Before all else, I want to express my appreciation for Mr. Joe Potocny for his blog here on "Living with Alzheimer's". Getting a glimpse into what it's like to live with this disease day in and day out is an important experience for myself as a researcher in this field.
I've always felt that a clinician who sees patients suffering with these progressively debilitating disorder, talk to family members of the patients - has this direct connection - which could very well feed into a personal drive/ambition to move the field forward- be that in improving diagnosis, understanding causes or coming up with treatment strategies. As researcher, I'm removed from that. And this blog is my way of making that connection - bolstering that personal ambition towards cure for Alzheimer's and related disorders.
I'll conclude this entry with words from a gentleman in Phoenix, who is also an Alzheimer's patient- his name escapes me at the moment. I saw him in the HBO documentary on Alzheimer's and the last scene on his segment in the documentary, he said "I just want someone to come up with the cure."