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Me an' Algernon – grappling with (temporary) cognitive decline


Originally published May 20, 2015.

After being poked, prodded, scanned, and bled I got good-ish news: it's none of the fatal stuff, no tumor, no fronto-temporal dementia. As much as we've collectively learned about medicine, it's humbling (and a little frustrating) to be met with shrugs, especially when the condition threatens my livelihood and identity. On top of that I've been trying to code up one of our ninja questions (binary tree->doubly linked list) and barely making progress in hours of work.

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