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[falconer66a]

My sincere thanks.

Just wanted to say sorry Bout your Dad Falcon.

Yes my father, an accomplished, respected public accountant had to dispose of his business because of the onset of Alzheimer's. For about three subsequent years my mother, herself an accomplished and respected geriatrics registered nurse undertook the duties of caring for my father as he continued mentally to decline. Finally, for the last two years of his life he had to be institutionalized. In those years, he recognized none of his family; only occasionally recounted vague stories of his early life.

Then, he contracted a form of pneumonia. In her wisdom, my mother precluded any sort of desperate treatment, allowing my father, her husband, to pass very quietly. Ultimately, it was a blessing.

Before several hundred assembled in our church, I represented my mother and my siblings in writing and speaking the eulogy at the funeral.

Of course, many times I've contemplated how things might have been different had blarcamesine been available back in the early 1990s. If given at the first sign of cognitive debility might it have prevented the full onset of Alzheimer's? At the least, might it have allowed a more normal life for my father's last decade?

Understandably, and with no adverse moral implications, most of us know about or have acquired a position of Anavex shares for purely pecuniary reasons. I've acquired and hold a moderate AVXL position very much to attain monetary rewards. But, personally, because of my family experiences with Alzheimer's, I at the same time recognize and take into account the severe distress and pains the disease causes in both patients themselves, and in their families. For both moral and pecuniary reasons I hope (and pray) for the Anavex sigma-1 receptor agonist drugs to, soon enough, become available for the treatment of CNS diseases across the world.

As a boomer growing up in the fifties, I and my siblings were among the first to have the polio vaccines. With those, the prospects of suffering in an iron lung were obviated. Now, in the 2020s, might various central nervous system diseases be prevented or treated, starting with Rett syndrome, Parkinson's disease dementia, and Alzheimer's? May it be so.