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W. Baker

In alt.support.diabetes Bj?rn Steensrud > wrote:
: wrote:

: A recent newspaper article here said that about 5% of all dementia patients
: in this country suffered from raised pressure in the brain. Upon diagnosis
: they underwent an operation where a drain was inserted -and all dementia
: symptoms disappeared. "Adult hydrocephalus", unknown and unsuspected in
: most cases, and completely curable.

that is wonderful news. Too bad htat it is such a low percent of
dementias. I wonder, however, if it might have helped my Mother as her
over 9 years of decline may well not have been altzheimers as she had some
partial recovery of memory in her very last days. She ws once agian able
to recognize the names of dear ones adn kind of grunt as I told her what
was going on with them. this was actually, a few days befor she died adn
I alwasy though that hearign that all was well with her sisters,
grandchildren, etc, enabled her to go in peace. She just slept away in
the night.

Wendy