Re: RC: a safety issue: head injuries linked to alzheimers disease

[BMcCrary27@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/24/2000 12:14:14 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
guest@endurance.net writes:

<< A.Perez AmandaPerez@ureach.com
 There was a story on NPR this morning about recent research 
 which reviewed the records of WWII veterens who sustained 
 various head injuries (and a control group w/o head injuries)
 and then reviewed health histories of both groups.  The report 
 said a single injury bad enough to cause unconsciousness and 
 memory loss was correlated with later onset of alzheimers.
  >>

Interesting coincidence.....while waiting around the LAX airport for my 
connecting flight home from the BOD meeting last Sunday, I walked into a book 
store and started reading Nancy Reagan's new book about her husband's letters 
to her (what an incredible love story!)  Toward the end of the book, she 
touched on his present condition with Alzheimer's Disease, and she believes 
it all started when he was thrown off a horse and sustained a head injury.  I 
started wearing a helmet after I had a horse fall over backwards on me.  I 
didn't hurt my head (but had 4 broken ribs), but it set me to thinking about 
safety.  Being a pathologically cautious person, I never get on a horse any 
more without wearing a helmet.  Ribs will heal (unless one punctures a vital 
blood vessel or organ), but brain damage is something that terrifies me.  
Just my opinion.........

Barbara