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2012

Western Kentucky University

Alzheimers disease

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Foreclosure And Other Essays, Derick Brandon Strode Sep 2012

Foreclosure And Other Essays, Derick Brandon Strode

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My dad had early onset Alzheimer’s disease. I first knew something was wrong with him in 1995. He was 49 then, and I was just about to start the eighth grade. That’s the summer his company backed him into a corner and told him to quit or be fired. He had worked there 14 years. They said his behavior was changing, and they thought he was doing it on purpose. It took seven years to get an actual diagnosis. The doctors looked for everything. They just thought he was too young.

I’ve relied on materials found in my parents’ house …