David's Alzheimer's Fight
Hosted by David Uhlfelder, who is facing early-stage Alzheimer’s with resilience and humor, alongside co-host Dr. Karen Gilbert, this podcast shines a light on living well with the disease. Together, they share personal stories, expert insights, and practical tips to help others navigate the journey with strength, knowledge, and hope.
David's Alzheimer's Fight
Short-term memory loss isn’t “normal,” and noticing it early can change everything
A sudden blank mid-sentence can feel like the floor dropping out from under you and it can also be a vital signal to pay attention. We share Dave’s candid story of noticing repeated short-term memory slips, the moment a seminar slide declared “short-term memory loss is not normal,” and the practical steps that turned fear into a plan. If you’ve asked yourself, “Is this just aging?” you’ll learn how to evaluate that question with clarity and compassion.
This podcast shares insights, not medical advice. Please consult a professional for your care. Hi, everybody. This is Dave again with my co-host Dr. Karen Gilbert. And today we're going to talk about the importance of knowing or realizing there may be an issue. And that was happening to me. An issue meaning that there could be some memory cognitive problems that are going on. And I would be forgetting what I was saying in the middle of the conversation. I probably could not have this conversation I'm having or this podcast right now because I would forget what I was thinking about and it just lost it completely. So one of the things we did was I attended a seminar from Alzheimer's Community Care, and Dr. Winter uh showed a slide that said, short-term memory loss is not normal. That's pretty big. And then you're saying because, well, I'm getting older, and I forget where my keys are, I forget where the telephone is, and it's just all the time there's something you're forgetting. And that necessarily can't be ignored. In my business, I was having problems with remembering computer things that I needed to know and so solutions. So you really have to be critical, and you have to really be honest with yourself to realize there may be something going on, and it may be necessary that you go see your at least your primary care physician to get at least an idea of possibly what's going on. And from there, it may be a neurologist you'd have to see. But the point is don't ignore this. And because if you catch these things early, like I've done, there's ways that you can subside or at least prevent some of the onset of some of these symptoms, which of course are very scary. But if you do what you can with other methods that we've talked about and also realize that you need to talk to somebody.
SPEAKER_01:So again, huge benefit to early diagnosis and early intervention. So thank you so much for listening to these mini podcasts. And we do have several extended podcasts that uh go more deeply into a lot of these issues. And David, tell everyone how to find them and how to like you on social media so they'll get them as they are released.
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SPEAKER_01:Thank you so much. You can reach David by email, uh, David at David Alzheimer'sFight dot org. You can reach me very simply, education at allskare.org. That's alzcar.org. Uh, you can reach me by phone at 561 683 2700.
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