Reflecting on Alzheimer's Diseases.

Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia, is something that I am sure that we would like to prevent if we had the chance. What has always been the worst thing about Alzheimer’s, in my opinion, besides the memory loss, is the fact that you do not even know that a person has it until they are in the late stages. From the moment that someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, his or her memory loss is so instantaneous that it is simply heartbreaking to witness. These videos that talk about detecting Alzheimer’s before it comes, diagnosing Alzheimer’s before it comes, or even predicting that it will affect you, are pretty amazing. One thing I found interesting, that two of these videos had in common, was the theory of the presence of amyloid beta proteins; and how that predicted the presence of Alzheimer’s disease. Better yet, the presence of the amyloid proteins detected and diagnosed the disease before it attacks. I like the idea that Dr. Lee Goldstein has about slowing the progression of Alzheimer’s disease and even his hopes of trying to get rid of it completely. I think that the way that Dr. Goldstein anticipates detecting it, through eye tests, is probably the simplest and most effective way of uncovering Alzheimer’s in the early stages.
I wish that we had discovered something like this about 15 years ago. If a test like the one that Dr. Goldstein spoke about had existed then or was known at the time, maybe it could have slowed or prevented Alzheimer’s from taking over my grandmother’s life. Seeing someone go through complete loss of memory is one of the saddest things I have ever had to experience. My grandmother did not recognize my grandfather, her children, or her grandchildren. She was scared all of the time and would even try to run away from her house. It got so bad that they just had her in a hospital bed at my grandfather’s house, attached to IV’s and whatever medicine it was that they were giving her, so she could pass away with