[AT] now Heart concerns

[joehardy at epix.net]

Farmer, It is hoped that research will discover how to "tweek" that abnormal gene to head off Alzheimer's.  I've got a part time job with a very wealthy family who is dealing with a similar family tree that you have. Although they have plenty of money to spend but only can do nothing more than to keep the family member comfortable  in  an Alzheimer's facility. Live each day doing what you enjoy doing most like keeping us up to date on the happenings on your farm. Got my MM335 under canvas outside my bedroom window awaiting  for all the snow to melt and temperature warm enough to  finish re-assembling the engine. Wife says must be out of our backyard by Spring!   Tough Winter here in N.E. PA!    Joe Hardisky  Ryman Farm   Dallas, PA   

     On Saturday, February 21, 2015 3:24 PM, Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com> wrote:
   
 

 This one is a bit of a downer. Sorry. Spring needs to get here so we can do
something tractor.
:-)
My heart is not my biggest worry. A pulmonologist recently told me that he
wanted to make all of his patients live to be 100... Now that is scary to
me. Much of my family has generally had fairly long life spans going way
back, discounting those that were killed by stuff like lightning or a
couple that drowned in the Ohio River at Evansville IN.
My main worry is that my somewhat recent family tree is a veritable
fountain of Alzheimer's and dementia.
Both of my parents suffered from Alzheimer's in their later years. My
father was the lucky one of the two. He died of congestive heart failure
after only a few bad years of it. My mother on the other hand had it so bad
and so long (10+ years) that I say that she rode the Alzheimer's train all
of the way to the end and then crashed through the stop bumpers and smashed
into the station... She remained in decent physical health until she could
no longer remember how to breath or pump blood. My father had 3 sisters and
all three died of long drawn out Alzheimer's (his only brother died a
little younger from a bad heart). My maternal grandfather had Alzheimer's
as well but like my father, died of heart problems after  a few years. His
grandmother spent her last days committed to a mental institution from
dementia.
I only have one sibling, a sister who is 3 years older than I am. She has
just reached the point that they can not leave her alone in the house...
So far I have dodged that bullet (other than long term CRS and a tendency
to ramble). I'm not sure why.  I just keep checking the grounds...  :-)

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Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com
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