Looking for Anecdotes

My book editor friend reviewed the manuscript for the second edition of Beating the Dementia Monster, and he gave me an excellent suggestion.  He said that I should find other people with an experience similar to mine and include brief anecdotes about them in text boxes.  Probably a single paragraph.  This is done pretty often, and it's a great idea for the new book.

So far, I've found one person.  She's a lawyer living in Western Washington who has been dealing with younger-onset AD for ten years.  She's about two years younger than I am.  She says she is having more problems lately with her short term memory, but she's still able to live independently.  And she checks all the boxes for a brain-healthy lifestyle: walks at least a mile every day, eats a Mediterranean diet, participates in the constant social activities in her senior living facility (includes dancing), and sleeps well.  She says her most important asset is that she has a very positive attitude.

She has a point about the positive attitude -- which is consistent with recent research.  Some of the hormones and proteins present during depression attack the hippocampus and aggravate AD.

If you know someone else with a story who would be willing allow me to write to them, please let me know: dave@dave-b.net.