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Posted on 6/26/16 at 6:06 pm to lsunurse
Excellent read. This is such a horrible disease.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 6:13 pm to papasmurf1269
Complications from pneumonia is what took my mother. Her inability to sit up and move anymore lead to fluid on the lungs and she was unable to breathe anymore.
I shouldn't have opened this fricking thread.
frick
I shouldn't have opened this fricking thread.
frick
Posted on 6/26/16 at 7:42 pm to lsunurse
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I did have moments when I would speak to one of them on the phone....and they didn't know who I was. Those moments just broke my heart.
Had the same thing happen with my wife grandmother. Last christmas the entire family on my wifes side was all together bc we pretty much knew it would probably be her last. We were talking with her and over the course of the conversation she asked how our two dauhters were doing four different times even though they were right by her. Very heartbreaking to see plus extremely hard to explain to a 4 and 6 year old why she didnt remember them anymore.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 7:52 pm to papasmurf1269
My grandmother had it for 13 years before she died. She didnt even know who her own children were and often asked when she "could go back home" even though she lived in that same house for 50+ years. It was devastating. It has affected a very large % of my family and I have been told by my doctor that I am showing signs already at 30 years old 
Posted on 6/26/16 at 8:03 pm to Hester Carries
I have had 2 grandmothers and a father in law suffer from this terrible diseases. At the end they have no clue what is going on. It is very hard to see a close loved one suffer through this horrible disease
Posted on 6/26/16 at 8:19 pm to papasmurf1269
Mom lost the ability to swallow but she was gone long before that
Posted on 6/26/16 at 8:41 pm to piratedude
Someone that was in above average physical health before developing the disease, and are subsequently well taken care of by family members, will live a very, very, long time. Well after the family members taking care of them become complete strangers.
Inability to chew and swallow their food is what will eventually kill the victims in this category. They starve to death.
Anyone that would stick a feeding tube down their throat at that point should be taken outside and stoned.
Inability to chew and swallow their food is what will eventually kill the victims in this category. They starve to death.
Anyone that would stick a feeding tube down their throat at that point should be taken outside and stoned.
This post was edited on 6/26/16 at 8:43 pm
Posted on 6/26/16 at 9:15 pm to efrad
Grandpaw has dementia.
He fell down last night around midnight .
They have 24 hr day sitters that live with them but it sucks.
He sleeps a lot, always says he wants to go back home.
He'll be 93 in August, but I can't see him being around much longer.
It really sucks to get old.
Luckily he hasn't gotten mean to the sitters or my grandmother yet.
He fell down last night around midnight .
They have 24 hr day sitters that live with them but it sucks.
He sleeps a lot, always says he wants to go back home.
He'll be 93 in August, but I can't see him being around much longer.
It really sucks to get old.
Luckily he hasn't gotten mean to the sitters or my grandmother yet.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 9:50 pm to papasmurf1269
They stop eating.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 9:52 pm to PygmalionEffect
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Pat Summitt's family said Sunday that the last few days have been difficult for the former Tennessee women's basketball coach as her Alzheimer's disease progresses.
Amid reports of Summitt's failing health, her family issued a statement asking for prayers and saying that the 64-year-old Summitt is surrounded by the people who mean the most to her. It also asked for privacy.
The statement was posted on the Pat Summitt Foundation's website and was issued by Erin Freeman, a spokeswoman for the Summitt family.
Former Tennessee player Tamika Catchings was flying to Knoxville to visit the coach instead of returning to Indiana with the WNBA's Fever. Other former players were issuing support on Twitter through the "PrayForPat" hashtag. Phoenix Mercury center and Tennessee alum Isabelle Harrison said former Lady Volunteers players were keeping up with Summitt's situation in a group text-message chain.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 9:56 pm to papasmurf1269
Darrell Royal, the former University of Texas football coach, had Alzheimers, and ended up dying when the fell at the constant care facility he was in, hitting his head. They called it "neurovascular."
Posted on 6/26/16 at 10:00 pm to Makinbacon
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He'll be 93 in August, but I can't see him being around much longer.
No offense, and I know it sucks. But damn, I just want to go. 93 years is just too long. Put me down before it comes to that.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 10:06 pm to JOHNN
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Had the same thing happen with my wife grandmother. Last christmas the entire family on my wifes side was all together bc we pretty much knew it would probably be her last. We were talking with her and over the course of the conversation she asked how our two dauhters were doing four different times even though they were right by her. Very heartbreaking to see plus extremely hard to explain to a 4 and 6 year old why she didnt remember them anymore.
A couple of months ago we had a family get together with a relative who had recently been diagnosed. She didn't know me, but she hadn't seen me in years, so I didn't expect her to. I introduced myself, and we talked a little bit, and moved on. She was able to hold a conversation, so I figured she wasn't too far along. Then as the party broke up, I spoke with her again, and she had no recollection of meeting me earlier. We made plans of getting together again, but realistically, that was probably the last time I'll ever see her.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 10:08 pm to bigwheel
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Had 2 friends die of it , both diabetics
Some researchers have taken to calling it Type 3 diabetes.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 10:09 pm to tduecen
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kill them but what happens from the disease will kill them.
Don't listen to some of these idiots. Alzheimer's will cause bad things to happen to your internal organs. Then you die.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 10:46 pm to papasmurf1269
My paw paw passed away in 2013 because of Alzheimer's... He deteriated to the point where he did not know how to feed himself and would fight anyone that tried to touch him. Eventually, he tried to get out of bed on his own and fell and hit his head... He passed away 2 weeks later. It's a terrible fricking disease that completely ruined him.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 11:55 pm to RileyTime
My grandmother had it. It was heartbreaking to hear her ask when her husband (who had passed 2 years before) was going to be home. She was in her mid 90s. Very sad to hear about the poster who said their mother is going through it at 68.
Posted on 6/27/16 at 8:14 am to PygmalionEffect
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Anyone that would stick a feeding tube down their throat at that point should be taken outside and stoned.
we had that discussion. 6 months before she died, we took her off of all drugs except bp meds. we did not want high bp giving her headaches. we had them put DNR on her chart and just waited. i was relieved for her when she went.
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