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Garland storyteller working to combat 'chemo brain'
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Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
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July 4, 2008
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- MEG HASKELL; OF THE NEWS STAFF
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Deena Weinstein is a professional storyteller. She's also a
writer, counselor, educator and notary public. She officiates at
weddings and funerals and visits sick people at home and in the
hospital. She's a wife and mother. She loves to travel. It could be
hard to keep track of all of her interests and activities - and
indeed, the 60-year-old Garland resident said in a recent interview
that she has always been a little scatterbrained.
But back in 2004, while undergoing chemotherapy for breast
cancer, Weinstein found her brain feeling more scattered than usual.
She was more forgetful, less able to concentrate, failing to recall
people's names, losing items she had just set down. She took ...