What I did when I identified Mike Webster's thing, I showed it to other doctors. We all agreed that this was something new, but we had to give it a name. This was not dementia pugilistica. Maybe we could have called it dementia footballitica!
I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from the more common form associated with Alzheimer's disease.
I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.
Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world.
None of us wants to be reminded that dementia is random, relentless, and frighteningly common.