Alzheimer’s at 39

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Michael Ellenbogen was 39 when he first started forgetting little things—acronyms related to his business, work meetings and phone numbers.

“I was always very good in the sense that I could remember everything,” Ellenbogen said.  “I didn’t have to write anything down.  I would just remember it.  And then I started forgetting the names of my employees.  I even started to stutter trying to say my own name.”

In the beginning, Ellenbogen’s wife Shari said she wasn’t overly concerned.  “When he kept saying he was forgetting things, I would say, ‘Oh, I forget things, too,’” said Shari Ellenbogen, a nurse at Doylestown Hospital in Pennsylvania.  She believed it was simply a natural consequence of growing older.

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