Although I have not posted much in quite a while, I still read all the posts, and my heart breaks over and over for each and every one of you. After 4 months of research conducted at the Mayo Clinic, Florida Brain Bank in Jacksonville, we received a final report of the autopsy conducted on my dw's brain. The findings are as follows: The pathological findings confirm that she had a form of Alzheimer's known as Hippocampal-sparing Alzheimers, which starts at an earlier age than average. Also, she had amyloid angiopathy, which further complicated her symptoms. I am very grateful for having done the brain study, and it has provided a lot of information for us, and the realization that the disease was really "all in her head". Unfortunately, there is still no test or treatment that can be used for proper diagnosis, and I guess the best diagnosis is " if it smells like dementia, looks like dementia, sounds like dementia, feels like dementia, then it must be alzheimers. Thank you for all your fantastic support during my journey through this adventure. I have discovered that it does not really end after death, but will always be part of my past, and hopefully never part of my future again.
Thanks Frank. I'm going to look that up. Yet another weird earlier-onset variant.
edit: Interesting...having discovered that the hippocampus has navigation and spatial orientation among its functions, I can safely conclude that Jeff's hippocampus has not been spared.