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In 2010, Gerda Saunders learned she has dementia. She was 61-years-old at the time, and a professor at the University of Utah who was already recognizing symptoms in herself. Gerda has been writing about her experience, and has agreed to let RadioWest follow her on her journey with the disease.
It happens to me sometimes that I just hear the words, but it’s as if it takes time to translate it into meaning.
It happens to me sometimes that I just hear the words, but it’s as if it takes time to translate it into meaning.
I think that objects play a part in the continuity of lives.
It happens to me sometimes that I just hear the words, but it’s as if it takes time to translate it into meaning.
There's some feeling of relief, that, OK, I'm really not making this up.
It happens to me sometimes that I just hear the words, but it’s as if it takes time to translate it into meaning.
Isn't letting go of the things of the world, part of the transformation I must undergo as I enter zombiehood?
It happens to me sometimes that I just hear the words, but it’s as if it takes time to translate it into meaning.
MEMORY'S LAST BREATH
Gerda Saunders has written a book which was released June 13, 2017.
It's called Memory's Last Breath: Field Notes on My DementiaMY DEMENTIA

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