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This is Later with Lee Matthews,
the Lee Matthews Podcast more what You Hear

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Weekday Afternoon's on the Drive. The
annual Walk to End Alzheimer's is coming up

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Saturday, the twenty eighth, starts
at eight thirty at Scissor Tail Park and

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we are going to be there.
Joining me now from Alzheimer's Association is Herb

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Magley, one of the volunteers.
Great to have you along, Herb,

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Hey, thanks for having us.
We really appreciate this. This is a

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big time for us with this walk. Well, it is, and it's

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a very personal connection with you,
is it not? Very much? So?

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My wife developed symptoms at age fifty
two and we went on a thirteen

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year voyage with this terrible disease.
So I got very much involved with the

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walk, and to be honest,
the Alzheimer's Association saved my life. We

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lose one out of every three Alzheimer's
family caregivers die before the person they're taken

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care of. But if we can
get them involved with our walk, with

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support groups and education programs. I
have in the ten years i've been volunteering,

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I've never seen this lose a caregiver. The Walk to end Alzheimer's.

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The Oklahoma Chapter is also a great
resource for all kinds of things when it

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comes to this debilitating disease. Yes, it does. It's you know,

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we get about seven thousand people.
Actually one time we had an estimated ten

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thousand people show up, and you
know, it's so difficult to get out

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to get these people, to reach
them because there's such a stigma attached with

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this disease. That it is incredible
that we have grown this into one of

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the biggest walks in the country.
So that's that's fantastic and the new Scissor

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Tail Park is a perfect place to
have it. It'll be Saturday, October

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twenty eighth. You can get together
a team, you can work walk by

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yourself. Most participants honor someone that
they know who is afflicted by Alzheimer's,

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like Herb MAGLEI and Herb Magley's wife, and it all raises money for the

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Alzheimer's Association. If you want to
get involved, I'll get give you some

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information. A little bit later.
On eight thirty is when the party all

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starts at Scissortail Park ten am.
The ceremony and walk then begin and herv

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there's no cure. But we're making
strides for treatment, aren't we. Absolutely,

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you know, we have finally come
up you know, we've had drugs

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that basically treat the symptoms, but
we have recently, over the last couple

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of years, come up with drugs
that will actually slow down the cognitive decline.

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And that's the first time that we've
seen that. But you know,

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when we first started this walk with
my wife, it was like, I

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don't know, ten twelve years ago
and we would only get my cimeter million

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a year for research. And now
we're up to almost four billion, and

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that makes a huge difference. They
are finding out a lot more about this

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disease and treatments as well as ways
to avoid getting it. So it's fantastic.

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And leave One other thing I wanted
to say was the money that people

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raise for this walk, sixty percent
of it stays here so that we can

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help those caregivers and those who have
the disease as they're going through this disease.

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It's such a long and expensive disease
that this really helps to have.

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All of our programs that we offer
are free, Our education programs are free,

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our support groups and we have thirty
of those around the state are free,

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and those are really the lifesavers.
I mean, to get people into

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those groups with people who are going
through the same thing they are is fantastic

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because most people don't understand what the
caregivers are going through or what the people

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who have the disease are going through. So it's great that the Alzheimer's Association

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offers all those things and offers them
for free. And it's all because of

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all because of the people that walk, and we have I think there's seven

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walks around the state. Tulson and
Oklahoma City are the two biggest ones,

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but we have others as well,
Pauca City, Stillwater, Guthrie, many

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more. The Walk to End Alzheimer's
participants will honor Alzheimer those who have suffered

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Alzheimer's as well, and also there's
solidarity and colors. The colors of promised

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garden flowers represent people's connection to Alzheimer's
and up to seven thousand people are expected.

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If you want to be one of
them, it's Saturday, October twenty

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eighth. You can go to Okcwalk
dot com okcwalk dot com to get your

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team together and learn more about the
walk coming up at Scissortail Park, Herb.

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It's when you start seeing the development
of the disease. It's more than

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just forgetting where you put your your
car keys. Oh yes, And as

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you go through the disease, it
just you run into so many other things

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that that disrupt your life as well
as the person with the disease. You

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know, they get paranoid when they
forget where they put something. They think

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that you hid it from them.
You know, there's I said, there's

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about five or six different things.
I lead about five support groups here in

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town, and I constantly hear the
same things. You know. It's when

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you have to tell them that they
can't drive anymore that's traumatic. You know,

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when you're trying to decide am I
going to put them into a community

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or keep them at home? When
you see what the cost of this is

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going to be. You know,
I found that only about ten persons of

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the people can really afford this.
Yeah, and those are the lucky ones

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that got long term care insurance or
wealthy enough to handle it. It's just

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terrible. I mean there are times
Lee when I'm done with my support group,

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I'll go sit my corn cry and
there's nothing to do with what I

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went through. It's what I know
they're going through, and it's tough.

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But we do as much as we
can to help them in those support groups

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and in the educational programs to teach
them how to be a caregiver because it's

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so different. But you know,
the party is the fun part where we

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get to come out and this walk
is all about them. It's all about

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the one who has the disease.
It's all about the caregiver. And you

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know, like you said, we
have the promised garden flowers that they hold

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up and I'll tell you, when
you have seven thousand people holding up those

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pinwheel flowers, it is it brings
a tear to you. Hi, Yeah,

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it does. Herd Magley is with
us. It's the disease that is

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harder on the caregivers than it is
actually the person who's afflicted with it.

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Alzheimer's and the Alzheimer's Association Walk to
End Alzheimer's Saturday, the twenty eighth Scissor

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Tail Park. Herb, we will
see you there dressed up in all your

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regalia and thanks for joining us.
Absolutely. Hey, thanks a lot for

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having me. I appreciate it.
Thanks for listening to Later with Lee Matthews,

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the Lee Matthews Podcast, and remember
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