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Terry Pratchett is donating ?494,000 ($1million) to Alzheimer's research. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7291315.stm
"Go not gently into that good night..."
by jessie
by danlm
When she died, she was not the woman that I knew growing up. Not even close.
When visiting her at the hospital one time, she asked me to do something.... And she had reached the point that the first words out of my mouth were... daddy will take care of it... It was like talking to my 4 year old at the time.
;o(
dan
by nicknielsen
My father-in-law had it. The m-i-l finally put him in an Alzheimer's care facility when he started waking up in the morning and asking "Who are you?" Her guilt at feeling relieved that somebody else would now take care of him was obvious.
Thankfully, his heart gave out before he got much worse.
by gadgetgirl
A friends' husband got early onsite Alzheimers at the age of 39. His daughter was 15 at the time. He's still going strong; while his daughter managed to continue and fulfil her education and is now a lawyer, my friend has spent the last 11 years caring for someone who was her lover and best friend, as well as her husband, who hasn't known who she is for the best part of the last nine years.
They don't have the option of a care facility, and respite care is one night every so many weeks (I think it's eight) She keeps asking me what she did so wrong that she deserved all this.....
GG
by dadspad
Unfortunately, there is often dementia that goes with this horrible disease. Fortunately hers were not violent, just convinced that someone lived in the basement (we had no basement) and other things like that.
After she died, my father did not live very long afterward. They were very devoted to each other. Still miss them both.
by tig2
Nothing.
She did nothing to "deserve" what she is going through.
I learned quickly (?) to regard some of the more difficult
times in my life as opportunities to learn something I
wouldn't have otherwise. I have found that having learned
it, I have more than ample opportunity to share what I
have learned with others.
My Grandfather reached a point where he not only didn't
know the people around him, he reacted to not knowing
badly. He was hospitalized and restrained in the last
weeks of his life because he became violent. That is no
way to go. It is surely not what he would have wanted.
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