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Article: JOHN BRADSHAW CARING FOR WIFE, DOROTHY, AN ALZHEIMER'S PATIENT.(SUFFOLK SUN)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 6, 1997
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Byline: FRANK ROBERTS, STAFF WRITER
Dorothy Bradshaw was an excellent bridge player. She remembered her cards, she knew how to bid - she knew how to win.
About five years ago, though, the scenario became a bridge over troubled waters.
``She'd come home from a game and tell me she was getting bad cards,'' said her husband, John. ``Edith Hurff, my sister-in-law, would tell me - Dorothy's not playing the cards correctly.''
That seemed to be the start of Alzheimer's disease.
``She'd leave a burner on for a long time,'' 84-year-old John Bradshaw said, ``or she'd turn the wrong one on.''
There were more wrong turns - ...