To mark the second annual World FTD Awareness Week, two newspapers published op-eds written by people whose lives have been touched by FTD. On October 1, the Altoona Mirror in Pennsylvania ran an op-ed written by Cindy Odell, who was diagnosed with FTD five years ago. Odell maintains a blog documenting her FTD journey. Later, on October 6, the Delaware State News published an article by Eugenia Thornton, whose husband of 41 years has FTD. Thornton writes that her husband, a “career soldier [who] once was a leader of men,” is now almost completely reliant on the caregiving staff at the veterans’ home where he lives. Thornton writes that she marked World FTD Awareness Week by holding a Food for Thought event in Dover, Delaware.
from Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration http://ift.tt/2eo7QTM
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