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The overwhelming stupidity & inhumanity should come as no surprise. The surprise is that we’ve allowed it to continue this long. WTF is wrong with us? There aren’t any super heroes waiting for just the right moment to save us. This is not a Marvel comic, it’s the real world. #FTD #NoKings #NoICE
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Chap 19 is now up. This post is about the aftermath of Jezebel's death and the effect it had on Peggy. Also, looming incontinence 😱 and a lot of word salad.
fiveandahalfyears.net/chapter-19-t...
#Alzheimers #dementia #FTD
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Cognitive Flexibility and Task-SwitchingLong COVID impairs the ability to shift efficiently between tasks — a function of the anterior cingulate cortex and orbitofrontal regions, which show progressive dysfunction even beyond the acute phase. � A multi-matter practice requires constant context-switching: moving from one client's legal strategy to another's factual record to a third's research question within minutes. Long COVID makes each switch cognitively expensive, slow, and error-prone, with carryover contamination between tasks (intrusive thoughts from matter A appearing during work on matter B).Processing Speed and Reading ComprehensionExecutive function tests in long COVID cohorts show significantly prolonged reaction times, increased interference effects, and impaired inhibitory control. � For a professional whose work requires reading dense legal or medical literature rapidly, synthesizing it, and applying it strategically, slowed processing speed is not merely inconvenient — it means that a task that previously took 30 minutes now takes 90, directly eroding the professional's ability to maintain throughput across matters.Temporal Organization and Deadline ArchitectureThe hippocampal involvement in long COVID — reduced gray matter, impaired contextual encoding — directly disrupts the ability to maintain an accurate mental model of where each matter stands in time. � This is distinct from simple forgetfulness: it is the loss of temporal-contextual binding, the ability to know not just what needs doing but when, in what order, contingent on what. For a patent attorney managing prosecution timelines, response deadlines, and multi-jurisdictional filing requirements simultaneously, this is a systemic capacity failure.The Serotonin and Dopamine Depletion LayerA Cell (2023) paper linked long COVID brain fog to serotonin depletion driven by viral-associated interferons. � ADHD is itself a dopamine-deficiency syndrome. Serotonin and dopamine systems are tightly ...
The Functional Collision: Specific Professional Capacity ImpactsFor a professional managing simultaneous high-stakes matters — each with independent deadlines, research requirements, factual backgrounds, and strategic demands — the neurobiological injury maps onto discrete functional failures:Working Memory CollapseWorking memory — the ability to hold multiple active information sets in mind simultaneously while manipulating them — is the single most load-bearing cognitive function in multi-matter professional work. � COVID-19 directly damages the prefrontal circuitry governing working memory, � and in a person with ADHD whose working memory was already their primary vulnerability, this creates a compounding deficit: matters bleed into each other, recently reviewed facts evaporate before they can be applied, and the mental "desktop" that tracks where you are in each file shrinks dramatically. The Gomes et al. paper's finding that people are initiating stimulants far more rapidly post-pandemic (median 348 days vs. 2,493 days pre-pandemic) likely reflects clinicians seeing exactly this presentation. �Prospective Memory FailureProspective memory — remembering to execute future-oriented tasks at the right time — is among the most impaired domains in long COVID. � In a professional with multiple concurrent deadlines and procedural obligations, this is catastrophic: filing deadlines are missed not because they weren't calendared, but because the intention-to-action bridge collapses. The PMC case report of post-COVID ADHD-like syndrome describes a professional who began "forgetting professional commitments" and had "difficulties with planning and monitoring his actions" — a direct parallel to this scenario. �
#LongCOVID impairs the ability to shift efficiently between tasks — a function of the anterior cingulate cortex and orbitofrontal regions, which show progressive dysfunction even beyond the acute phase.
A multi-matter practice requires constant context-switching & may cause #FTD.
#medsky
#ADHD
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Care partners are essential partners in research.
By sharing lived experience through the FTD Disorders Registry, families help researchers understand how #FTD unfolds in real life.
Read more:
ftdregistry.org/press/what-c...
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Recognizing the Easily Mistaken Signs of Young-Onset Dementia
The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD) has an interesting summary on its website of an article about young-onset dementia in The Telegraph (UK).
www.theaftd.org/1ftd-in-the-...
#FTD #dementia
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To those who are considering running in 2028. Tell me who your press secretary will be before I decide. Because I CANNOT listen to someone like KKKaroline who has no honest answers and only blames the opposing party. It's disgusting.
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Chap 18 is now up. This post is about the aftermath of a fall that Peggy had that landed her in the emergency room. She needed stitches, but was okay. But then sadly, her favorite cat died. Ugh. Definitely a difficult time.
fiveandahalfyears.net/chapter-18-h...
#dementia #Alzheimers #FTD
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I'm with you. Those types of ads are corrosive as people tend to believe them. When my sister had dementia I was constantly fending off people who wanted to make it all her fault. Maybe it's their own fears showing? #Alzheimers #dementia #FTD
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Asked if Americans should worry about Iran retaliating against Americans on U.S. soil, President Donald Trump responded, "I guess" 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'
I GUESS?!?!?
#ETTD #FTD #WTF
#YouFirstFelon
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Chap 17 is now up. We're solidly in stage 5 here with everything that goes with that. Interactions become a little more challenging. Ethical issue: when to clear out a person's storage area? Remember self-care - it's important.
fiveandahalfyears.net/chapter-17-s...
#Alzheimers #FTD #dementia
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Frontotemporal Dementia Is Often Misdiagnosed — New Tests Could Help beingpatient.com/frontotempor... by @spichaksimon.bsky.social @beingpatient.bsky.social
#FTD #dementia #geriatrics #neurology
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it's the severity of his dementia
bastard has to go
#FTD @epistemiccrisis.bsky.social
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Chap 16 has now been posted. This post is mostly about tips I used to help Peggy feel seen and heard. Humor was a big tool in my toolbox. Playing to her strengths was another. Learning everything I could about dementia also helped.
fiveandahalfyears.net/chapter-16-h...
#alzheimers #ftd #dementia
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The man who fell in love with the sound of Spitfires – here’s what this unusual symptom can teach us about dementia theconversation.com/the-man-who-...
#dementia #FTD #Alzheimers #geriatrics #neurology
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Chapter 15 is now up. This post is about Peggy trying to hold it all together, and not always succeeding, hence "I'm trying." She'd often say "sometimes I can't do anything."
fiveandahalfyears.net/chapter-15-i...
#Alzheimers #dementia #FTD
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He’s being propped up with Elmer’s glue, scotch tape, and staples…but that only works for so long.
#CHF
#Stroke
#Obesity
#Dementia
#Incontinence
#cankles
#LecanemabIVTreatments
#BloodThinners
#PeripheralEdema
#Wheezing
#DropFoot
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#LeaningTowerOfFeces
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A new research deal is targeting toxic proteins behind #ALS and #FTD — a hopeful advance in developing therapies that go after the disease mechanisms. 🧬
Read more: https://ow.ly/XsTV50Ym5cx
#NeurodegenerativeDisease #MedicalResearch #Therapeutics #Biotech #HealthNews
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Chapter 14 is now up. These two posts are about cutting off access to my sister's credit cards & canceling unused checks. It was sad, but she wasn't safe to have those in her possession any longer
fiveandahalfyears.net/chapter-14-w...
fiveandahalfyears.net/removing-acc...
#Alzheimers #dementia #ftd
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The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Bruce Willis eigenwereld.nl/nieuws.php?i... #BruceWillis #popculture #ftd #dementia #hollywoodstar
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The only person playing games w/tariffs is the Trump. He's telling US importers to continue to pay exorbitant tariffs-taxes & pass those increases on to the American people or he'll scream in a post and charge the AMERICAN IMPORTERS & US MORE!
#FTD
#ImpeachTrump
www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
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Chapter 13 of the blog is now up. This post details lockdown projects, the first time Peggy fell, and our RV trip (trying to control our environment) to go visit her during the soft lockdown.
fiveandahalfyears.net/chapter-13-c...
#Alzheimers #FTD #dementia
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Trump forgets he posted an endorsement two weeks ago.
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-for... #Greene #Georgia #specialelection #dementia #25A #FTD #Alzheimer's
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Chapter 12 of the blog is now up. This post details how we first dealt with the Covid lockdowns with Peggy in assisted living, and the workarounds we had to create.
fiveandahalfyears.net/chapter-12-l...
#alzheimers #dementia #ftd
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I'm about to check out the new predator movie. It seems fitting since today's President's Day
#fuckDonaldtrump #FTD
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“Triptych of Disgust”. It’s tough to have any reverence on this Presidents’ Day when the worst of the worst ruins everything here. So I’d drawn the orange and then the others and decided to post them as the triptych. #killerbobart #ftd #fucktrump #nokings #wethepeople
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