Category: Denise

(Sunday, May 31, 2026) full moon Sagittarius

I have wondered for a while if my PPA was caused by hormonal issues. I did not get my period until I was 15 years old (extremely late) and I had a very early menopause, around the age of 40. I chose not to do estrogen treatment because back then the concern was about stroke and breast cancer.

I do take hormone pills (not estrogen) because of my thyroid removal.

Today I saw a new study, published on May 26, about estrogen loss and memory loss for women. The work was done at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where I just participated in the PPA study. I sent Michelle an email about it. Hopefully I can discuss this with my Mayo neurologist on June 22.

https://neurosciencenews.com/estrogen-loss-extracellular-matrix-alzheimers-30762/

(Thursday, May 28, 2026) waxing gibbous moon Scorpio

I had not remembered dreams for almost a month and that made me very worried. But I am dreaming again.

Fragment: I am dreaming. In my dream my mind is functioning well.

(Memorial Day, 2026)

Yesterday, my first full day home from Chicago, I decided to go to Sunnyside Gardens to buy my tomato and cucumber plants. As I pulled out of the driveway and drove down my street, two big trucks from Sunnyside were parked next to a neighbor’s house.

As I was getting ready to leave Sunnyside, I saw my neighbor Jim (whose wife Vicky recently died). We chatted for a bit and he mentioned he had just seen my friend Jeanne at the coffee shop they both hang out at. He not seen her for a very long time.