Patient was taken to hospital December 16 by ambulance. Six resuscitations were performed in a time period of about 40 minutes. Patient is now stable breathing assisted. Acute cause: seizure followed by aspiration, seizure, respiratory distress, heart failure. Swallowing difficulty and saliva were becoming factors in the two weeks leading up to this event.
Family is pleading with researchers working on discoveries in Frontal Temporal Dementia to contact us with a comment and your contact information and we will moderate the comment (all posts are first moderated) and not post the contact info to the blog.
Valproate is being administered by iv.
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My wife age 58 has a diagnosis 2 years ago from UCLA of possible Alzheimer's with a fronto/temporal presentation. She has not responded to any of the usual mainstream pharmaceuticals. 1 & 1/2 years ago a study out of Scripps Research Institute in San Diego detailed the affect of marijuana as an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor working 5 times better than Aricept. Since then she has eaten marijuana cookies daily which has controlled her mania and given her more capability than without. Over this Christmas we went to visit family and I miscalculated the amount of cookies to take, ran out and she became psychotic. Seroquel, and similar stronger anti-psychotics were given with no effect. Once we were able to return and resume cookies she returned to her calmer state. Her decline continues but she is mostly happy and comfortable.
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