Our local police chief was featured on the NBC Nightly News "In Their Own Words" segment last fall talking about his battle with Alzheimers. Some of you may have heard that he has been in the local news again recently.
Apparently there was a wild fox roaming the town in the middle of the day. Since the neighborhood has a lot of children, the police officers made a judgement call to shoot the fox. Unfortunately the chief's bullet ricocheted off a metal swing set and went through the window of a home day-care. Thankfully, no one was injured. The incident didn't have anything to do with the alzheimers, just poor judgment and poor aim. After a review he was given a reprimand and reinstated.
On a more positive note, there was a very good story on Spencer's faith journey featured on PBS' Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. He has a neat testimony of how this disease has affected him spiritually. My handsome hubs got his name mentioned and some screen time in the PBS report, so I thought I'd pass it along the link (hopefully it will work).
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week1146/profile.html
Have a great week-end!
Shelley
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Yep, the link works. Nice story. That doctor sure looks efficient and well qualified! I hope the fox incident doesn't give ammunition to the police chief's detractors (if there are any).
Our former pastor is in end-stage alzheimer's right now (went down really really fast here at the end), and he's just in his early to mid-70's. Looking back, people can see how he was probably in the early stages when his management in the last years of his service at our church was not real great. But he's one of those men that everybody loves because he was such a people person in his prime--a real pastor's heart. His family is blogging daily to let the many people who love him know how he is doing.
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