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Jul 13, 2020 3:09 AM
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nonamejanie
My grandfather constantly relived spurts of time as nazi prisoner of war. It would make me cry. I wanted to make it stop for him.
wozat
Narrator: But not everyone was fine...
tiniemar
My city is going to build a Dutch style dementia village. I just hope it's completed before my dad needs it.
AggresivelyMotivational
Is paid fox different from unpaid?
Birdshateme
I'm just happy she isn't moving
NaughtButOne
The cure for Alzheimer's comes in a handy capsule form. Swallow one upon diagnosis.
BorkLocutus
My stepfather said i should whack him, should he one day not recognize my mom or me. It was funny back then, but now he's getting worse...
Mewmus
scientists came close to curing dementia, unfortunately they made the sharks too smart
rhapsodyinblah
My MIL worried about money until her mind was gone.
TheLilCreatures
Fingers crossed for neuralink's possible applications
Munchman347
Isn't there a sign just like that in the Oval Office?...
ManOfKent1967
As a carer looking after an elderly mother with early signs of it, I can't add any more to this.
chinaPieCreator
My Mum in law had it for the last 3 years of her life, she died last October Terrible to see her decline, she didn’t know who I was anymore
YannYacobi
So many cases may be Korsakoff (alcohol-induced), yet alcohol is often the one drug you have to justify NOT consuming.
waitwasthatreal
wernicke-korsakoff caused by a B1 deficiency, with or without alcohol, and tends to be easier to identify.
Longbowgun
Folding at home(Stanford University)has projects working Alzheimer's (and COVID). You can help: donate your computer when you not using it.
SweetNonsense
There has been some postive results from Dr. Dale Bredesen's protocol. Look for the published results
Oldiewankenobie1
My grandma has it. She remembers my wife and my son but not me.she was so sweet, and alway madenthe best wagffle. I miss her.
CailinAmaideach
I watched my great aunt, in her 60s, go from a woman who had always lived alone, chopped her own wood, totally independent to 1/
CailinAmaideach
2/ someone who was like a lost, scared, tempermental child, to finally being something like a zombie, lying in bed not speaking, over the
CailinAmaideach
3/ course of 10 years. It was heartbreaking and I fear it happening to my father, to my brother, and to me
ThatsProbablyInMyBag
My grandma has a very slow onset dementia and it is just so sad. She was the nicest person, and now is getting meaner and meaner1
ThatsProbablyInMyBag
And the worst part is that is what I will remember the most. And I wish i could remember before. I know it's not her fault. But it is the2
ThatsProbablyInMyBag
Most recent memories of her are the clearest. 3
zakisback
My mother in law is in a really nice home. She literally thinks she is staying at a high price hotel on vacation, and dresses up everyday.
fanciestface
My mom used to work at one that had ‘cocktail hour’ nightly with a piano player. Was so fancy!
MW2018
If that works that’s the best! My granny wants to go home to her mum and doesn’t recognize her clothes.
Demogorgon12
It feels like that might be one of the better fantasies
YourHuckleBee
I can’t think of much better circumstances that would be better just a huge damn list of all the ones that wouldn’t be.
ethicallysourcedcannedtuna
My step grandmother could never remember her kids but she could remember my mother's name and that she gave her the, "tv refrigerator combo"
bonniecarusoart
My mom couldn’t figure out how to dial the phone, and the nurses said she’d keep trying to plug herself into an outlet to connect to me :(
ethicallysourcedcannedtuna
It was a tv set on top of her mini fridge in her room.
BlueRonfar
Was the combo the power button?
safespacesnowflake
Fuck I thought she was onto something then! I don’t see the problem in technology suggestions from Alzheimer’s patients. Shit’d get wild.
bigfoot52
that’s quite nice, my grandma in law used to call and tell us she had no clothes, trying to convince her otherwise was so hard.
Jumpingatshadows
My mum is dying from it now, and aside from the absolute heartbreaking dissolution of a corner stone of my life, no one tells you it’ll 1/2
Jumpingatshadows
Cost £60,000 A YEAR to care for her in a pretty nice home where she has adequate supervision- the death industry is truly appalling
Noraneko
how do you pay for it?
Jumpingatshadows
We sell the family home we’ve had for over 40 years and everything in it, at a post Brexit/Covid crash price. She was briefly in a state run
Jumpingatshadows
Home, and it was jarringly grim- cramped, dark, anonymous, no activities- like a really budget hostel. When I visited daily, most of the
Jumpingatshadows
residents were sat along the walls of a dimly lit common room with a small TV playing, staring at each other with pained expressions ?
ChickenChickenBurningBright
Yesterday I had to use packing tape to immobilize the front door knob because my Alz. wife decided to answer the door and have a mutually
ChickenChickenBurningBright
maskless conversation with a fucking siding salesman while I slept, and had no clue why what she did put us both in danger. she just ignores
ChickenChickenBurningBright
all the notesI have plastered all over the house, and will ask me to write down how to turn on the TV while sitting in front of a stack of
imgal76
Sometimes putting a black rug down in front of the door will cause folks to think it’s a hole they don’t want to fall in, preventing this 1
imgal76
Sort of thing. Also, u can get an alarm tone for the door so u know when she opens it. Best wishes to u both.
ChickenChickenBurningBright
notes on how to turn on the TV. Fortunately I'm working from home for the most part, but she's a crying mess on the rare in-office days.
ChickenChickenBurningBright
It's getting worse every month, and I have no clue what to do with her when I can no longer work from home. There's no adult day care in my
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area, and she's getting tired of staring at the TV all day bingeing 80's and 90's TV series. Gonna suck, no lie, gonna suck so hard.
sometimeslifehandsyouapples
When things settle down. Look into an Au pair. Trump has a hold on them at the moment. Its still expensive, but SOOO much cheaper than any o
sometimeslifehandsyouapples
Option in the US. Its also not medical care, but could put an able body in the home to watch her while you work
sometimeslifehandsyouapples
Probably going to give better care than the quality you will get from our nursing home in the states. And some people cant afford a retired
sometimeslifehandsyouapples
Nurse. Its an option. Not perfect. Which unfortunately our elderly care/ mental health care is grossly lacking in the states. Either wholly
katwa
So, some random aupair without training should look after an elderly woman with alzheimers? Can't see that going wrong at all.
sometimeslifehandsyouapples
I actually did something very similar as a young woman. And Ive also worked in a nursing home. And I can tell you a well vetted au pair is
flarflarf
alzheimers is the cruelest death.
CitrusStrongman
Not as bad as mice nesting in your scrotum for 6 to 11 weeks
Arock77
Seriously
IWANTFUNNY
My grandma has had it for more than 20 years, happy as ever. Most sickness is what u make of it. Except cancer, fuck cancer!
Lepercake
Being eaten alive by aids-rats is the cruelest death (I worked with somatic patients for years and so I know for sure)
SkunkMom
My grandpa died earlier this year to it (and other complications) but...he's kinda been dead for 10 years. He hadn't called me by name in 7
Dionysus187
My grandfather tells us regularly (because he can't remember) next time he gets sick he doesn't want to go to the hospital, just die at home
johnrocks
Its been linked to gingivitis
DocG80
Along with Lewy Body dementia and Huntingtons... wouldn't wish them on enemies
zeiji
Rabies is pretty horrifying as well.
schofield101
My G-mother has it at the moment. 83 and she's really starting to feel it bad. Such a cruel life
ownzyou123
I dunno, ALS would top that list for me
Iowyn
I had heard, we're likely to go to A or D if we go that long... I actually hope if I last that long I just have one powerful stroke asleep.
jmeyers1983
Chronic illnesses like Alzheimer’s, (and cancer, etc.), are why I believe in euthanasia.
Iowyn
It's truly a good thing at a certain point. My grand parents had wished for over a year... It would have been so much nicer for them.
GeneralGinger531
Strokes, Heart Attacks, brain hemmorages are why DNR's exist, right?
astrangehop
Comas& Ventilators even
AlexSomething
It's that son of a bitch of a disease that took Sir Terry Pratchett from us way too soon.
keenidiot
Reading the last few books was painful, doubly so the last one.
RackhamTheRed
For the next of kin, not for the patient themselves.
flarflarf
yes, this is mostly true.
Juicytoast
My fiance's grandma died of it. I know how hereditary it is, I'm scared I won't know how to handle it if she ended up developing it.
whatisimgurallabout
It is cruel for the family, the person is oblivious, to them it is painless, just a slow drift into nothingness
thildemaria
Not always. My grandma has Alzheimer's and she frequently complaints about memory loss, she gets scared and frustrated, she's freezing 1/
thildemaria
all the time, tickling feels like pain to her so getting her toenails clipped is painful, we're mean when we make her take her medicine, 2/
thildemaria
And on a recent vacation with family, she didn't sleep for days because she was terrified that she would be left behind - which we would 3/
thildemaria
Never do, of course. Maybe she'll become oblivious one day but right now she's aware that something is wrong. 4/4
Sleepyhead22
My Gmother had it for about 3 years before she passed. Agreed. It was hard for all of us.
Spocky730
I'm watching my Gmother go through it now. Drs said she had dementia for years prior which has our family rethinking so many moments.
Sleepyhead22
That was the hardest part. She became a different person to people she had known all of her life.
FireProblems
Does it kill you? How do people with it die if not from the disease itself?
flarflarf
no, it doesn't kill you. but at the extremes people can't care for themselves. they have to be fed and bathed and they just sort of waste
flarflarf
away.
flarflarf
it steals everything from you before it lets you die, even the ability to kill yourself. My mom always said she'd put a bullet in her head
flarflarf
before she let herself get like that but the disease sneaks in so gradually that it even stole that chance from her.
ethicallysourcedcannedtuna
So sorry for your loss. I'm curious though, do you think the grieving process would've been easier?
flarflarf
yes. My dad died suddenly and violently and it was much easier than watching my mom slowly evaporate over 7 years.
Weedies617
Jeez that was dark. Sorry for your loss though
VonScwaben
And yet also the one that gives the most peace. When my ola died, I realized I didn't grieve as much is I otherwise would have. 1/
VonScwaben
With his dementia, it felt as though he had died a few years earlier. So when his body finally failed him, we had already been grieving 2/
VonScwaben
For a year or 2, so the pain of loss was subdued. And we know that he can now remember us again, when we eventually meet him again in the 3/
VonScwaben
Next life. Still, the pain is fept by the family while they're still alive, so a cure would be well sought after. 4/4
insongwhang
You're gone long before you die.
SuperLudo
I pretty much mourned my grandfather a decade ago, still go see him to make my mum happy. I hate it though.
insongwhang
I understand you. I did somewhat the same with my great-grandmother. It was just a husk of what she used to be at the end.
dilphyo
It still means a lot to them even if they can't express it or remember it. Some of my residents wait all day every day (1/2)
dilphyo
to hear from their families, and ask for them constantly. I know how hard it is but you're making his life a little better.
Bruhbeans
Yup, rather die of cancer than die while losing all my memories, my family & friends and my life's journey that make me the person that I am
flarflarf
and leaving behind a shambling husk that needs constant care for years, bankrupting your family.
Bruhbeans
Constant care? Yes. Bankruptcy? USA
nothebees
Both my grandparents had it, at the same time, medical bills won't end you in EUR, but the diapers, and the cleaning and other costs do.
chinaPieCreator
Didn’t cost us anything for Mum in law over the last 3 years, Pads, medication all free here in Australia, even the Carers that came to
ztygs
Americans often forget that 'medical bankruptcy' isn't really a thing for the rest of us...
Ketheres
Or crippling student debt.