{"id":1158,"date":"2013-04-04T09:01:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T13:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2013-04-04T15:40:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T19:40:58","slug":"thursday-4-april-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2013\/04\/04\/thursday-4-april-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 4 April 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

09:01 –<\/span> Interesting article in the paper this morning about the costs of various diseases. Dementia, including Alzheimer’s, is by far the most costly, at around $1,000\/year for every man, woman, and child in the US. And no possibility of a cure. Neil Young’s lyrics kept running through my mind: “And once you’re gone, you can never come back, when you’re out of the blue and into the black.” People with profound dementia are in a very real sense brain-dead. Even if our medicinal chemists come up with a miracle cure, at best it will stop the progress of the disease. It won’t reverse the physical damage to the brains of people who already suffer from profound dementia. A person without a functioning brain is no longer really a person. The kindest thing we could do is euthanize them.
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Work on kits continues.
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15:40 –<\/span> The weather around here this time of year is highly variable. Yesterday, for example, it was sunny and the high according to our thermometer was 74.3 F (23.5C). At this moment, it’s 36.4F (2.4C) and there’s frozen precipitation falling. And it’s of a sort that I don’t remember ever seeing before: snleet. Or perhaps slnow. It’s simultaneously snowing and sleeting.
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09:01 – Interesting article in the paper this morning about the costs of various diseases. Dementia, including Alzheimer’s, is by far the most costly, at around $1,000\/year for every man, woman, and child in the US. And no possibility of a cure. Neil Young’s lyrics kept running through my mind: “And once you’re gone, you can never come back, when you’re out of the blue and into the black.” People with profound dementia are in a very real sense brain-dead.<\/p>\n

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