Dear Golden Readers, I am pleased to report that a Singapore-based follower of Brain in a Jar has awarded me the Versatile Blogger Award. She has a blog, too, called Frangipani Singaporenicum about her trials and triumphs while taking care of her mother who has early dementia. I like her blog because it connects me…
Tag: Alzheimer’s
Bodyless Horseman of the Apocalypse
Dear Dreamy Readers, Growing up with a neurologist can really mess with your head. Especially if he’s got a brain in a jar at work, and spinal columns hanging from IV stands at home. Unphased by it all, I used to hang out in his den and read everything from the Merck Manual to Pediatric…
Oops, I Did It Again
Dear Memory Preservers, I had a very good and long laugh at myself this morning. The kind of laugh that nearly turned into hysterics. As you know (although new readers may not), my father Beau became a neurologist after watching his father’s demise from Alzheimer’s disease. Beau then kept his father’s brain in a jar…