Award-winning Journalist Greg O'Brien shares Inside Alzheimer's with Dr. Marissa

In a poignant moving insightful interview with Dr. Marissa, award-winning journalist Greg Brian O'Brien shares uses his gift of language to describe the struggle and challenges of losing his brain, "his best friend" to the horrible disease of Alzheimer's. When he cannot recognize his wife or friends and colleagues, he likens it to doing his laundry in the basement and having someone who doesn't know he's there, turn off the lights... the light flickering on and off before finally becoming dark forever. Dr. Marissa cannot hold back her tears as he shares his own experience caring for his mother who also died with the disease, and at one point both of them taking the same drug for the same disease…how his words of comfort to any and all who feel lost--that the disease will never take who they are in their heart. His book "On Pluto: Inside the mind of Alzheimer's" is a must read for all. The work that he's doing as he is fighting for time against both Alzheimer's and prostrate cancer to raise awareness and money to fight the disease and find a cure is more than admirable. We can help! Greg O'Brien answers Dr. Marissa's candid questions around death, God, hope and life with this debilitating disease with quotes from Mark Twain and Bugs Bunny! This remarkable man points us in the direction of other efforts to "kick this disease in the butt!" --from Still Alice and the directors' valiant work in shining the light on women and Alzheimer's (two thirds of all Alzheimer's patients are women ) fund and his new friends/family of Glen Campbell. To end the interview, Dr. Marissa asks him to recount his favorite memories of his wife and children...and he answers with a glorious sense of humor and incredible power of faith, including asking God WTF! His faith and sense of humor, hope and sense of purpose earn him Dr. Marissa's Beneficial Presence on the Planet Award. Comment: One of my most memorable interviews…watching someone speak from the heart, and so eloquently describing both the impact and the experience of this debilitating disease. A bonus was Greg's interaction with my staff interpreter Romina...making this a truly memorable episode for my Radio for Our Deaf Community series. Episode sponsored by www4Balance.org and SelfieStationPodcast.com/DrMarissa