- Do you know how old I am?
- Ah, 28?
- 80?
- From 28 to 80--
- Sorry.
- My name is Miriam.
- It's nice to meet you, Miriam, my name's Crystal.
- What do you do at home?
- Well, I'm retired but I used to be a lawyer.
- Ah--
- What's a lawyer again Justin?
- Do you know what a lawyer does?
- Not exactly but I heard of what a lawyer does
and I keep on forgetting.
- So I've got Alzheimer's, have you heard of Alzheimer's?
- No.
- Alzheimer's is a disease.
It's weird, because I look normal
and I can talk,
but when I go home, I will have forgotten
what you and I talked about.
- Oh. - Yeah, oh what's that,
it's that thing that goes around eating things.
- You mean Pacman?
- Pacman, yes, well there's a Pacman in my brain,
going around eating my brain (laughs).
Yeah. - Maybe you could just create
a Ghost in your brain, and then eat Pacman
and go bye-bye and then the Ghost goes away.
- Sure, absolutely, why not (laughs).
I forgot where I was going,
I forgot what I was going to say.
- What's your favorite food?
- Well, I'm a vegetarian.
Are you a vegetarian? Ah, I'm so proud of you.
Why are you vegetarian?
- 'Cause I don't like to kill.
- Oh.
- I don't like hurting 'em but for some reason,
I like eating 'em.
- I know.
- Do you remember what you had for lunch?
- I don't have a clue.
Do you remember what you ate for lunch yesterday?
- Peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
- You've got really great memories.
Do you ever forget things?
- When I put the remote down and go to get something,
when I come back in the room, I forgot where the remote was.
I have to search the entire room.
(Miriam laughs)
- My Dad is kinda like that, when my Mom asks him
to do something, he doesn't do it, every single time,
and he always says, I forgot, I forgot, I forgot,
I forgot, I forgot, I forgot,
I forgot, I forgot, I forgot.
- What else do you forget?
- How old I am, sometimes I think I'm six,
- Uh-huh.
- I forget like everything.
- You forget everything, oh my.
- Do you forget where you put something?
- All the time.
A couple of days ago, I didn't know where I was,
it took like five minutes for me to figure out where I was,
in my apartment.
What would you do if you got lost?
- There's a trail right by our house--
- That trail could go anywhere, Justin,
and that happened 'cause there was two paths.
- Follow the trail, if he goes onto the trail,
I don't go onto the trail.
- I would just--
- Pass him on the trail then I look--
- Okay, okay, okay, I'm confused.
- I would do this.
- I am totally confused.
- Does the technology help you remember things?
- Absolutely, I've got a Google calendar on my laptop,
and on my cellphone.
My calendar is basically substituting for my brain,
because my brain isn't working.
Have you heard, you know what Alzheimer's is?
- Yeah, you said that earler.
- Ah, yes (laughs).
- It's okay, it's okay.
- You know, I'm 70 years old.
- Like, you're old
- But I'm becoming, yeah, I'm gonna be becoming a baby,
because I'm going to forget how to eat,
I'm going to forget how to do things.
- Then someone take care of you.
- No, no, I live alone,
I live in a place where I have lots and lots of friends.
- Now, me too, I have such, so, so, so many friends,
I can only remember a few of their names.
- Oh, I can't remember names, like you told me your name,
but I forgot it.
- It's Crystal.
- I know, but I will forget it.
Sometimes I get sad,
but I try not to get upset,
I had so many great things happen,
I was an actor, I've been in movies,
and I've done some plays,
- Woah - Yeah, I used to sail,
I used to fly airplanes, I'm just really very positive,
look on the bright side.
- There is always a bright side.
- That's right.
- Even if you don't see a bright side,
there is always the one bright side, you're still alive.
- Yes.
- How do you stay so positive?
- We have choices, you can be really, really sad,
or I'm gonna say, oh, we've got to find a cure,
and they gotta spread the word.
In every State, Walks, they call them Walks,
to fight against Alzheimer's.
Do you want to come to the Walk here in Seattle?
- Uh-huh.
- As you can see, I'm doing good.
- You are doing awesome.
- Yes.
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