Amazing Place Welcomes
Dr. Mary Kenan as
Clinical Director!
Dr. Kenan reflects on her first few weeks at
Amazing Place and the future ahead
"I am delighted to join the outstanding team of professionals, volunteers, and beloved participants that are Amazing Place (AP). Although I’m transitioning from an 11-year career in academic medicine as the former Director of Education and Patient/Family Services for the Alzheimer’s Disease and Memory Disorders Center at Baylor College of Medicine, my purpose is the same: to serve those affected by Alzheimer’s disease and other cognitive disorders."
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Staff Update:
Toni Cambre,
Activity Coordinator
by Susan Giles,
Community Liaison
"I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation"- Philippians 4:12
Toni Cambre, Activity Coordinator for Amazing Place, is well-known for her radiant, confident smile. Also, anyone who is around Toni for very long sees that her spirit is truly free! But how does Toni keep smiling in spite of the fact that she was widowed in 1990 and left with a 4-year old daughter, worked for years with stroke victims and an ALS patient, and lost all her possessions in the Hurricane Katrina? How is Toni so resilient, strong and positive when she’s lost so much?
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The Story of the
Ribbon Tree
In December, 2010, Nancy Younger Kruka, of Greenwood King Properties, bestowed a deeply significant gift to Amazing Place-her mother’s Ribbon Tree. Nancy’s mother had Alzheimer’s disease and the Ribbon Tree project was a work of love between mother and daughter. The Ribbon Tree will be proudly displayed year round, on the second floor of Amazing place, near the Family Conference Room. Please read the story below by Jude Patronella, Homes Correspondent (By the way, Nancy Younger became Nancy Younger Kruka, when she happily married last year!)
“When my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in November of 2004 she had done a great job of hiding what was going on. And we, her children, had done a great job of not reading the many clues; so she was probably in the middle stages when she was diagnosed,” said Younger, Realtor in the Voss office of Greenwood King Properties.
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