sdredfern64
@sredfern.substack.com
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Environmentalist, backpacker, mountaineer, outdoorsman, dad, husband, and Alzheimer's warrior.
Pride Month 2026: In a time of hypocrisy and fear, love and courage are still revolutionary
#pridemonth
#pride
#diversity
#loveislove
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Love Is Stronger Than Hate: A Pride Month Reflection
In a time of hypocrisy and fear, love and courage are still revolutionary
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1 day ago
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My nine-month update is a mixed bag, I continue to acknowledge the bad, but try to build on the good and enjoy life a day at a time!
#alzheimers
#alzheimersawareness
#alzheimersdisease
#dementia
#imstillme
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My Nine-Month Update
I continue to acknowledge the bad, but try to build on the good and enjoy life a day at a time!
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6 days ago
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What an awesome backpacking trip with my friends in New Hampshire's Pemigewasset Wilderness last weekend. We had an awesome time summitting 6 4,000' mountains and covering ~33 miles of tough terrain.
#backpacking
#hiking
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Backpacking the Pemigewasset Wilderness of NH
Reconnecting with friends and making new ones on the trail
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10 days ago
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The things we wear, wash, eat, and breathe are reshaping our health whether we like it or not. The microplastic diet we didn’t sign up for is a serious threat to our health.
#alzheimers
#alzheimersawareness
#alzheimersdisease
#dementia
#healthyliving
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The Microplastic Diet We Didn’t Sign Up For
How the things we wear, wash, eat, and breathe are reshaping our health
https://sredfern.substack.com/p/the-microplastic-diet-we-didnt-sign?r=4joqvx
12 days ago
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Brain health studies are a way that anyone can help cure Alzheimer's Disease. Based on the curiosity and feedback I've received on the topic, here are some current studies that need YOU.
#alzheimers
#alzheimersdisease
#alzheimersawareness
#dementia
#imstillme
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Brain Health Studies for Everyone!
You can help solve Alzheimer's Disease
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20 days ago
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We’re all very good about sharing & discussing how we should live boldly, but we suddenly get uncomfortable when the critically important topic of dying with dignity comes up.
#alzheimers
#alzheimersdisease
#alzheimersawareness
#dementia
#dyingwithdignity
#ImStillMe
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Living and Dying with Dignity
Compassion can be extended in both directions as our time on this earth winds down
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27 days ago
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Eight Month Update: A new care team, a new infusion center, and new opportunities to share my story!
#alzheimers
#dementia
#alzheimersawareness
#alzheimersdisease
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Eight Month Update
A new care team and infusion center
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about 1 month ago
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May Day is the day everyday people go beyond making their presence seen or heard, to make their presence felt in the economy. Elections in Nov are critical, but destabilizing the corrupting influence of corporate elite in gov't starts now.
#maydaystrong
#resist
#internationalworkersday
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The Day the People Stopped the Machine
May Day 2026
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about 1 month ago
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I’m never one to sit idle, but spending time with my family making memories is absolutely the best way to stay active! Doing it together in another country is even better!
#family
#adventure
#retirement
#travel
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Where the Redfern(s) went ... in Portugal
A family adventure
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about 1 month ago
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The US healthcare system is broken. Here’s real facts on how most developed countries are doing it better & what we need to do as a society to change the crisis' trajectory.
#healthcare
#healthcarecrisis
#alzheimers
#alzheimersdisease
#alzheimersawareness
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The U.S. Healthcare System: Part 3
A Future at Risk
https://open.substack.com/pub/sredfern/p/the-us-healthcare-system-part-3?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
about 1 month ago
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Earlier this year after announcing my Alzheimer's diagnosis,
@beingpatient.bsky.social
asked me to share a video about my "Journey to Diagnosis." Here's a short article & links to the video.
#AlzheimersAwareness
#alzheimers
#AlzheimersAwareness
#dementia
#MildCognitiveImpairment
#ImStillMe
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My Journey to Diagnosis with Being Patient
with Being Patient
https://sredfern.substack.com/p/my-journey-to-diagnosis
about 2 months ago
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For
#EarthDay
yesterday, I decided to explore my backyard woodland to find natures spring treasures, and created a video. I hope you like it. Right beyond that perfectly quaffed green lawn, is an amazing world full of wildlife!
#nature
#naturelovers
#environment
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Every Day is Earth Day!!!
Earth Day exploration by video in our back yard...
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about 2 months ago
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Our healthcare system is broken & for people with degenerative diseases, it’s a nightmare to navigate. Part 2 of discusses the personal side of the crisis with my real-life examples.
#alzhiemers
#alzheimersdisease
#alzheimersawareness
#dementia
#healthcarecrisis
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The U.S. Healthcare System – Part 2
Patients Under Pressure
https://open.substack.com/pub/sredfern/p/the-us-healthcare-system-part-2?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
about 2 months ago
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I enjoyed speaking at Monroe's Masuk High School today during their "Walk-a-Mile in Her Shoes" event. The Center for Family Justice's main event, to support victims of domestic & sexual violence, is this Saturday at 9am in Fairfield. You can register to walk here:
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about 2 months ago
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Our broken healthcare system is under pressure from every angle. My 3-part series begins with pressure put on healthcare providers whom we look to for everyday issues and devastating diseases like
#Alzheimers
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#alzheimersawareness
#dementia
#alzheimersdisease
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The U.S. Healthcare System: Part 1
Excellence Under Strain
https://open.substack.com/pub/sredfern/p/the-us-healthcare-system-part-1?r=4joqvx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
about 2 months ago
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Summarizing my deep dives into brain proteins that can become toxic, and looking forward to the next generation of theories for treatment and prevention.
#alzheimers
#alzheimersdisease
#alzheimersawareness
#dementia
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The Protein “Wrap”
… Amyloid-beta, tau and Alzheimer’s disease wrap-up
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2 months ago
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Seven Month Update: A new memory care team … and more hiking (of course)
#alzheimers
#alzheimersawareness
#alzheimersdisease
#dementia
#ImStillMe
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A new memory care team!
… and more hiking (of course)
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2 months ago
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It is time to get out of the stands and into the streets on March 28th.
#activistnotspectator
#yeswecan
#NoKings
#democracy
#taxtherich
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March 28th: A Day to Reclaim Our Moral Center
Show up, Stand Up, and Speak Out!
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2 months ago
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Tau Proteins: The “other” protein in Alzheimer’s Disease
#alzheimers
#alzheimersdisease
#alzheimersawareness
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Tau Proteins Explained
The “other” protein in Alzheimer’s Disease
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3 months ago
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Trump can waste billions on bombs, but not on our kids.
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
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Democracy isn’t a spectator sport. It isn’t a museum display or a vocabulary word. It’s an action verb, and March 28th is the day we act.
#democracy
#freedom
#NoKings
#Resist
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March 28th: A Day to Be Counted
Show Up, Stand Up and Speak Out - Democracy must prevail
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3 months ago
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Amyloid-beta protein, it’s effect on Alzheimer’s disease, and the treatments that hope to counteract it.
#alzheimers
#alzheimersdisease
#alzheimersawareness
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Amyloid-beta Proteins Explained
… and the treatments that may counteract them in our brains
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3 months ago
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State highpoint hopping along the east coast
#hiking
#peakbagging
#nature
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Peakbagging in the Mid-Atlantic States
I had climbed 20 of the US’s state high points and I’ve been wanting to complete those on the eastern seaboard (aside from Florida), but I’ve been thwarted for the last year and half by hurricane Hele...
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3 months ago
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Actionable ways to protect CT residents from federal overreach TODAY
#democracy
#defenddemocracy
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Protecting CT Communities & Residents from Federal Overreach
Implementing the blueprint ...
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3 months ago
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Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Studies & Trials: Essential tools of disease research are not just for sick people
#alzheimers
#AlzheimersDisease
#AlzheimersAwareness
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Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Studies & Trials
Essential tools of disease research are not just for sick people
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3 months ago
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International Women’s Day in a Time of Backsliding - We must "Give to Gain"
#internationalwomensday
#IWD2026
#Diversity
#equality
#DEI
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International Women’s Day in a Time of Backsliding
We must "Give to Gain"
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3 months ago
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Monthly Update: February 2026 - I've survived half a year of “knowing”
#alzheimers
#alzheimersdisease
#alzheimersawareness
#dementia
#dementiaawareness
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Monthly Update: February 2026
I have survived half a year of “knowing” …
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3 months ago
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Monthly Update – January 2026: The New Year brings new opportunities and challenges
#alzheimers
#alzheimersdisease
#alzheimersawareness
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Monthly Update – January 2026
New Year brings new opportunities and challenges
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3 months ago
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Four Pillars of Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention Wrap Up: Bringing it all together in a plan
#alzheimers
#alzheimersdisease
#alzheimersawareness
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Four Pillars of Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention – Wrap Up
Bringing it all together in a plan
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3 months ago
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The Four Pillars of Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention: Pillar 4 Spiritual Fitness
#alzheimers
#alzheimersdisease
#alzheimersawareness
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Four Pillars of Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention – Pillar 4
Spiritual Fitness
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3 months ago
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The Four Pillars of Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention: Pillar 3 Physical and Mental Exercise
#alzheimers
#alzheimersdisease
#alzheimersawareness
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Four Pillars of Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention – Pillar 3
Physical and Mental Exercise
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3 months ago
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Four Pillars of Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention - Pillar 2 Stress Management
#alzheimers
#alzheimersdisease
#alzheimersawareness
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Four Pillars of Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention –Pillar 2
Stress Management
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4 months ago
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Black History Month: What I’ve seen in my lifetime and what we owe.
#blackhistorymonth
#blackhistory
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Black History Month: What I’ve Seen, What We Owe
I’ve lived long enough to watch this country change in ways that are both inspiring and heartbreaking.
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4 months ago
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Closing out 2025: Putting a brutal year behind me, and looking ahead
#alzheimers
#alzheimersawareness
#alzheimersdisease
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Closing out 2025
Putting a brutal year behind me, and looking ahead
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4 months ago
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My Alzheimer's journey update: Weeks 15 and 16 - Smooth sailing into the holiday season.
#alzheimers
#alzheimersdisease
#alzheimersawareness
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Update: Weeks 15 and 16
Smooth sailing into the holiday season
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4 months ago
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The best way to prevent Alzheimer’s is through one’s life choices, not the miracles of modern chemistry and medicine.
#alzheimers
#alzheimersdisease
#alzheimersawareness
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Four Pillars of Alzheimer’s Prevention – Pillar #1
Diet and Supplements - It matters what you put into your body!
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4 months ago
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My Week 13-14 Update: Meeting a new Alzheimer's specialist and sharing the news with my parents
#alzheimersawareness
#alzheimers
#alzheimersdisease
#alzheimer
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My Week 13-14 Update
Meeting a new Alzheimer's specialist and sharing the news with my parents
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4 months ago
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When ICE Raids Our Communities, Who Defends Us? A Blueprint to Fight Back
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When ICE Raids Our Communities, Who Defends Us?
A Blueprint to Fight Back
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4 months ago
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The devastating effect of federal funding cuts on Alzheimer’s research
#alzheimers
#alzheimersawareness
#alzheimersdisease
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The devastating effect of federal funding cuts on Alzheimer’s research
I’m going to sound angry on this topic, and it’s because I am!
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4 months ago
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Visiting the AMC's Medawisla Lodge in Maine's winter wonderland.. the Hundred Mile Wilderness.
#outdoors
@appmtnclub.bsky.social
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Visiting the AMC's Maine winter wonderland
The Medawisla lodge in the Hundred Mile Wilderness
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4 months ago
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My 3rd Month Update: Starting my treatment & sharing my Alzheimer’s diagnosis with our children
#alzheimers
#alzheimersdisease
#alzheimersawareness
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The Third Month Update
Starting my treatment & sharing my Alzheimer’s diagnosis with our children
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4 months ago
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Weeks Nine and Ten Update: Preparing to share my diagnosis with more people
#alzheimers
#alzheimersdisease
#alzheimersawareness
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Weeks Nine and Ten Update
Preparing to share my diagnosis with more people
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4 months ago
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We are at an exciting inflection point in Alzheimer's treatment development!
#alzheimers
#alzheimersdisease
#alzheimersawareness
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Alzheimer’s Disease Treatments
We are at an exciting inflection point in Alzheimer's treatment development
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4 months ago
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Stand with our friends in Minnesota and
#MayDayCoalition
- sign on to their petition to demand ICE's funding be frozen, and armed thugs removed from MN.
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Solidarity Pledge
Let's stand strong and stand together - with the people of Minnesota demanding #ICEOUT this Friday. With our communities as we demand a country that works for us, not the billionaires. And with our na...
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/solidarity-pledge-5?source=direct_link&
4 months ago
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My Second Month Update: Turning the corner toward optimism and reengaging in life!
#alzheimers
#alzheimersawareness
#alzheimersdisease
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My Second Month Update
Turning the corner toward optimism and reengaging in life!
https://open.substack.com/pub/sredfern/p/my-second-month-update
4 months ago
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Seventh Week Update - Distractions refocus our minds on the good today, instead of dreading the future
#alzheimers
#alzheimersawareness
#alzheimersdisease
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Seventh Week Update
Distractions refocus our minds on the good today, instead of dreading the future
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4 months ago
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Alzheimer’s disease has multiple forms, and many stages of progression
#alzheimers
#alzheimersdisease
#alzheimersawareness
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The Types & Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease
The week after “D-Day” (diagnosis day), when I met with one of my healthcare practitioners, one of the clinicians asked, “Is it the rapid progression type?” My head spun as I thought, OMG there’s a mo...
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4 months ago
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By week six I learned that writing is therapy in itself sometimes!
#alzheimers
#alzheimersdisease
#alzheimersawareness
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Sixth Week Update
Writing is therapy in itself sometimes!
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4 months ago
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Join the
@appmtnclub.bsky.social
for an open house on Jan 27 @ 7pm to shape our 2026 conservation strategy, celebrate 2025 local actions, & engage locally in 2026. Everyone is welcome, regardless of prior AMC involvement.
#conservation
#outdoors
#environment
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: AMC Clubwide Conservation Committee. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
This event is an open house hosted by the AMC's Clubwide Conservation Committee, welcoming existing, new, and curious conservation-minded AMC enthusiasts. The event will have three components: a bus...
https://outdoors.zoom.us/meeting/register/Oh8Aos0bQC6PdwR1_9ukww#/registration
5 months ago
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Five weeks of knowing, five weeks of living with
#Alzheimers
#alzheimersdisease
#alzheimersawareness
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Fifth Week Update
(These initial posts have been written in the past - before I made my diagnosis public - I’m adding dates to my personal update posts so you’ll understand the timeline better.
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5 months ago
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