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I thought the Stanford session was over. It was not.
When my friend sent me the first clip I was devastated — it just stopped before the solution. I came back three days later and found this page, watched the full thing. My husband of 41 years had stopped recognizing the names of our grandchildren. By week four he called our youngest by name at the dinner table without anyone prompting him. I sat there and could not say a word. My daughter filmed it on her phone and we still watch it when we need to remember that things can change.
312 people found this helpfulMy neurologist asked what changed. I told him.
I retired from teaching high school physics for 34 years. I started losing words mid-lecture during my last semester — the wrong name for basic formulas, students staring at me waiting. I thought that was just aging. After watching this full footage and following through, I went in for my six-month cognitive check. The doctor pulled up my previous scan and the new one side by side. He was quiet for a long moment. He said the imaging did not match what he expected to see. I am back to reading dense books and remembering what I read the next morning.
278 people found this helpfulShe drove herself to church for the first time in two years.
My mother is 74 and we had taken her keys after she got lost three blocks from her own house. She refused to go into a facility and I refused to put her in one, so I moved into her spare room. I found this footage late on a Tuesday night and just left it playing for her while she sat in her recliner. Three weeks later she told me she wanted to go to her Sunday service and she wanted to drive herself. I followed two cars behind just to be safe. She pulled right into her spot, walked in, and sat next to the same women she has sat beside for 20 years. I cried in the parking lot for a while before I could go in.
391 people found this helpfulI was a skeptic. My wife was right and I was wrong.
My wife found this page and showed me the video. I called it noise and walked away. Two months later I could not remember the name of the street where I grew up — a place I lived until I was 22. That scared me badly enough to come back and watch the whole thing. I am in week five now. Last Saturday I played nine holes of golf with my son-in-law and held a full conversation the entire round without losing a single thread. He did not ask once if I was okay, which is the first time in maybe two years that he did not.
204 people found this helpfulThe fog just lifted. I cannot explain it any other way.
I am 61 and still working as a paralegal. For the past eighteen months I had been writing everything down because if I did not capture it immediately it was gone. My boss started checking my work twice, which had never happened in 17 years. After watching this footage from start to finish I understood what was happening inside my brain for the first time. By week three the notepad was still on my desk but I stopped reaching for it. My boss called me into her office last week and asked what I had changed. She said my work output in the last month was the best it had been in years.
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