Re: Jan OT

[Guest guest]

Good morning Jan-

Thank you for the wonderful wishes for our new home.

We have always felt your support and greatly appreciate

your friendship.

Just heard a weather forecast, high of 71, rain and

thunderstorms. Yippee!! Wet cardboard with all

our belongings. Guess I shall have to run between

the drops...wheeeeeeeeeeeee.

Hugs right back at ya-

S

-- Study Program on Memory

> >

> > Hi,

> > I am in the process of putting Jim into a study

> > program on dementia at the University of San

> > Francisco. At the Symposium in DC they, the

> > researchers, mentioned that they need live studies

> > done and seem to have many brain autopsies, which

> > they

> > DO need, but stressed that they need people in

> > study

> > programs, that they can study now while living and

> > that not enough neurologists and doctors are

> asking

> > patients to volunteer in these programs or even

> > making

> > them aware of the programs. Jim many years before

> I

> > knew him got his things in order for his death and

> > decided that he wanted his remains to go to the

> > University of San Francisco as a Cadaver. So they

> > will

> > already have a study on him too in the end.

> > I don't know if they can do a brain autopsy on

> him,

> > since there is something mentioned that no organs

> > can

> > be removed from the remains for the study of the

> > cadaver, but maybe something can be worked out, I

> > don't know. Jan

> >

> > Jan Colello, wife of Jim, dx w/Parkinsons 1993 and

> > LBD 2003San Francisco Bay

> > Area, California

> >

> > __________________________________________________

> >