(Thursday, October 30, 2025)
When eating our delicious lunch today at Wise Acre, Tom asked me a lot of questions about my aphasia, my semantic dementia. We talked about his blood cancer, too, which is in remission. Then he told me that he also has aphasia, a different brain diagnosis than mine, but with some similar, frustrating memory issues. It is called cerebral small vessel or microvascular disease, or white matter disease.