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Realize What's Important

The Forgetting podcast: Episode 8

Greg loses his friend. Greg gets upset with people who do the “drive by.” An encounter of the 3rd kind. Greg tells a joke about Alzheimer’s, reminding us to keep our senses of humor. A discussion of the disease before symptoms. Greg has advice for his friend as he faces dying.

This episode was recorded April 13, 2017.

KEY WORDS: Anger and withdrawal; watching a loved one die; cancer and Alzheimer’s; the instinct to protect; beta amyloid