re: Alzheimer is a cruel disease

Sorry to hear. Prayers for you and your parents.

It's horrible. I can't think of another disease that rips dignity away so completely.

My wife's grandmother deteriorated from a sweet lady that baked things everyday to a cussing sailor that would always ask me if we ever fricked.

Their memories fade to nothing. It's so sad. My grandmother had it. At the end she knew she knew me but had no clue I was her grandson. But she was happy. Not like some stories I've heard where they get angry and violent.

My Grandma went quickly with dementia
It’s not an easy thing to watch

Sorry your family is having to go through this, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone

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When I saw him at the funeral, I tlold him that I was sorry the\at he lost his dad. His reply was “ thanks, but I lost my dad years ago”

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Yep

You don’t understand it until you experience it first hand with a loved one. Horrible disease and I’m blowing my brains out if I ever get it

Yes, it’s a cruel disease. Some people advance through the stages rapidly and some linger for a really long time. It’s difficult to predict a timeline for a loved one after a diagnosis.

I’m so sorry, buddy. Prayers for you and your family.

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She was a total vegetable for the last 5-6 years hunched over on a chair.

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Can someone please explain the point of this? We put pets down in this condition but people can't have this done? It's fricking stupid because if I was in that position, I'd rather be dead, and if a loved one was in that position I'd want them dead. If that's cold hearted so be it. If my parents get in that position, Dr Kavorkian Jr is getting a phone call.

my mother died of Alzheimer's in 2013 at 84. because of what i saw, i have given instructions to my family to not treat the disease if/when i get it. Mom was gone long before her body gave up, and she would have killed Dad if my brother and I had not intervened and put her in a nursing home. He was 89, and was her primary caregiver when we placed her in 2012. she lived about 18 months, with no clue who or where she was. he made it 4 more years after her death, only because he only had to care for himself.

we finally withdrew all treatment when mom became unable to swallow. I know that would have been her preference, because she told me that she personally placed a DNR on her own mother's chart (mom was a nurse), and gave instructions to the staff on all three shifts :"Don't hurt my mother, she is dying of congestive heart failure and there's nothing we can do to stop it. Do not call a code." Mamaw died peacefully, with no broken ribs.

Mom also died peacefully, without artificially prolonging the inevitable.