EARLY ONSET DEMENTIA-THE DIAGNOSIS

Our family has found ourselves faced with a very sad and lonely illness - Dementia!  Just over 2 years ago, my husband who has just turned 59 was diagnosed with a very rare form of Dementia called "corticobasal degeneration". I was told by a neurologist that it is not inherited, although, I remember his grandfather very well who was supposed to have Alzheimers and it seems to me, that he may have had the same thing! For a long time prior to his diagnosis, I knew something just wasn't right.  I thought he was depressed, but he also showed signs of confusion with spatial awareness.  The first experience with this was when he walked straight off the wall outside my daughter's school.  Another time when we were scattering my mom's ashes on the cliff paths, we suddenly looked around and he was not with us, we found him wandering around the parking lot.  The diagnosis was shattering to our family and his friends and I would like to share this journey for him, myself, my children, friends and family and whoever else out there, who might be coping with a loved one who has Dementia...............it's a long road ahead!