by Christy Turner | Sep 29, 2019 | The Alzheimer's Podcast
“The incidents are coming faster and faster and you know, even though I often say that I feel just fine, you know, I’m clearly not just fine. And no matter how many times it happens, at this point I think it’s going to devastate me because...
by Christy Turner | Sep 24, 2019 | The Alzheimer's Podcast
In This Episode And then, of course, once I realized what my brain had done to me, I got very upset and sat at my computer and cried a lot because…it just didn’t make any sense to me. It just doesn’t make any sense to me. It still doesn’t make...
by Christy Turner | Sep 17, 2019 | The Alzheimer's Podcast
In This Episode People with Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative disorders are typically portrayed in media as elderly white people. On television, it’s often a white man in the emergency department, accompanied by his wife, sometimes with a frantic son...
by Christy Turner | Sep 8, 2019 | The Alzheimer's Podcast
In This Episode I was invited to be part of the speaker faculty for the Inaugural Connecting Circles of Care & Building Bridges of Hope Dementia Cruise & Conference this past April. That’s where I met Phil Gutis, who became our Assistant Sherpa here on the...
by Christy Turner | Sep 2, 2019 | The Alzheimer's Podcast
In This Episode This episode is part two of the conversation Phil Gutis, our Assistant Sherpa, and I start in episode 109: The Randy Rainbow Debacle. That episode gives you the backstory and context to fully appreciate this episode, so if you haven’t already, go check...
by Christy Turner | Aug 25, 2019 | The Alzheimer's Podcast
In This Episode “So, I had another little incident with memory, the vast memory hole, which left me crying in a restaurant.” Because that’s how Phil Gutis, our Assistant Sherpa, started our conversation this past Wednesday, I knew it was going to be...
