Couldn’t agree more with your excellent summary of the helpfulness of this site. Two years of LC for me now and luckily I discovered Mayo Connect three months in… my PCP was (and remains) clueless. I got into the LC climic at Northwestern Memorial Hospital here in Chicago last September and as you point out, became just another data point for their research. One two hour meeting with neurologists, bloodwork and a recommendation for a six week course of cognitive rehab; exhausting and pretty useless. Without this group of compassionate fellow sufferers, I’d be lost in the gaslight. Friends try but don’t get it; lucky if you have a few loved ones who do. Buddhist principles, the Serenity Prayer and music keep me from becoming hopeless.. and this group. And poetry, and Becket: “I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” Much appreciation to the people here who understand and still manage to have compassion for others.