For all that I know,
For all that I’ve seen and done,
I don’t know what may be tomorrow.
All I know of tomorrow is
If I am alive
It will be a challenge!
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Blog Archives
Random Brainwave
Sensory Challenges and Medical Procedures
The Spanish Inquisition – Surplus Equipment
Ever wondered what they did with all that left over equipment of torture when the Spanish Inquisition wound up? Well it appears much of it was taken up by medical technicians (I bet you’re not surprised by that!). If you are in ‘normal’ health some basic medical tests can be a bit daunting,
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Sensory Challenge – Sound
Part 2: Sound and Hearing
Our ability to hear is fundamental to being able to understand those around us and to communicate with others. This is not the whole story though. If we became deaf there are ways of overcoming this loss. But what if our ability not to hear but to filter out the noise around us was impaired or lost?
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Sensory Challenge – Touch
Part 1: Touch and Temperature
Around my time of diagnosis I became aware of some changes in my sense of touch and thermoception – my ability to sense heat. The first thing I noticed was when I dropped a prawn on a hot barbeque plate. I immediately reached out and attempted to pick it up.
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Memories and Other Imaginings
What can you remember of your younger days? Can you remember much from when you were less than 10 or 5 years old? I can “remember” a couple of incidents from before I was 5, but what I remember involved me “seeing” what was happening to me from an observers point of view,
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Sensory Changes and Challenges
One of the main challenges a person with Dementia may face relates to how sensory information is interpreted by our unravelling brains. It has been long recognised by people with dementia that the way we experience the world though our senses changes (and continues to change) as our disease progresses.
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Address To 31st ADI Conference
This is the augmented version of my presentation at the 31st International Alzheimer’s Disease Conference in Budapest. It does vary slightly from by published notes because of time constraints. I have also added the music that failed to play in the PowerPoint presentation.
Live Long and Be A DAG
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For All Those Who Care
This is a short video dedicated to all those who care for us and about us. It is based on a poem by Max Ehrman (1927) – The Desiderata or desired things. It became known as the “hippy’s anthem” when it was recorded by Les Crane in 1971.
The text can be downloaded here.
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Brain Donations
In order to help further the research and understanding about Dementia, and hopefully to help contribute to a cure, I have arranged to donate my brain and spinal chord when I have finished using them. I even suggested that if I vote for our incumbent government in the upcoming election,
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Fun Fun Fun in the MRI
Yesterday I had my annual MRI scan and remarked to those present how this year not only did I detect the dulcet tones of Pink Floyd (Astronomie Dominie) but some of the works of Uriah Heap, another group of renown. I then had the opportunity to share this video produced (with much appreciation) by Elisa.
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