He was booking hotel and flight reservations but neglecting to cancel them-something my older brother, Rajiv, discovered only after he began to monitor my father’s bank accounts. For example, he had always been careful with his money, a consequence of an impoverished childhood, but now he was bouncing checks. Since their arrival, I had come to suspect that his symptoms were not the usual age-related cognitive changes, even if he kept saying they were. He and my mother had moved to Long Island, where my brother and I lived, several months earlier. “Well, no one can remember everything,” he muttered. He thought for a moment, then sniffed defiantly as my point came across. “So what did you have for lunch?” I asked, staring ahead. Any lapses, he had been insisting, were normal for a man of his age. “Because your memory is getting worse,” I answered. We were sitting in the waiting room of the same neurology practice that was treating my mother’s Parkinson’s disease when my father asked me, perhaps for the third time, “Why am I here?” Introduction: They Used to Call Me Topper Here & Now‘s Deepa Fernandes speaks with author and cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar about his new book “ My Father’s Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s.” It intertwines information about the disease and how it’s treated with his own family’s story of coping when his father developed Alzheimer’s.īook excerpt: ‘My Father’s Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s’
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