Fuck Alzheimers

[basinbeater]

Two thumbs up Satch!

[ötzi]

Good to hear Kenny. Keep keepin on.

[gravitylover]

You got this Kenny.

[Buster Highmen]

++++

[Danno]

Good to hear Kenny. Keep keepin on.

This

[hawkgt]

Keep on keeping on

[Harry]

Sister-in-law, age 67, is experiencing cognitive problems. Shocking how fast it is developing. My brother has a tough road ahead of him.

[Mofro261]

We noticed some cognitive decline in my Sis-in-law at 59 in 2021. She has an MBA, traveled to 60 different counties and has taught English in Columbia, Dubai, and in China as recently as the beggining of the pandemic.

The decline has been so severe that less than 2 yrs later she now needs full time assistance. She came up for a visit last week to give her partner a break and because travel won't happen much longer. She is showering 3-4x/day and night, needing the bathroom and then needing to brush teeth it seems 20x/day and night (and needing the water blasting on high during both). Needing help to get into bed and position correctly, waking up in the night and crying out because she can't find where the door is in the room she's sleeping to get out of to go to the bathroom.

It is beyond heartbreaking to see her entire world reduced to such a small space.

[Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo]

We noticed some cognitive decline in my Sis-in-law at 59 in 2021. She has an MBA, traveled to 60 different counties and has taught English in Columbia, Dubai, and in China as recently as the beggining of the pandemic.

The decline has been so severe that less than 2 yrs later she now needs full time assistance. She came up for a visit last week to give her partner a break and because travel won't happen much longer. She is showering 3-4x/day and night, needing the bathroom and then needing to brush teeth it seems 20x/day and night (and needing the water blasting on high during both). Needing help to get into bed and position correctly, waking up in the night and crying out because she can't find where the door is in the room she's sleeping to get out of to go to the bathroom.

It is beyond heartbreaking to see her entire world reduced to such a small space.

Damn, I'm really sorry. My mom's mom had it for her last 4 years or so. We were lucky that she was already in an amazing assisted living facility with her husband that had resources to support them but it was really hard on my mom and her sisters, I can't imagine how hard it would have been if they weren't already living in assisted living. I remember my mom telling me one time the part she didn't expect was that it started to make her second guess all the times she forgot something or was absent minded and whether they were somehow early signs.

[yeahman]

Vibes Mofro.

I listened to an interesting interview with Jon Krakauer yesterday from a couple years ago. One thing he said is that he had a pressurized bottle of nitrogen in his home for he and/or his wife to use to end their lives relatively peacefully (and without making a big mess for those left behind) should they ever be onset with Alzheimer's. I've done a bit more research and it sounds like a plausible plan. The key is to not let the dementia progress to the point where you can't remember how to use the nitrogen, where you stored it, etc.

[PB]

Well, to be fair, that's pretty much the key to any chosen method of self-euthanasia.
N2 actually sounds pretty desirable. Especially compared to CO2. Accidentally found my self in a CO2 environment, scared the shit out of me and painful as fuck.

[Flyoverland Captive]

Vibes to all who have to go through this. I just found out one of my dearest friends has only a week or two left. He’s been in hospice for a few months. So sad to see how fast he just fell apart.

[Kenny Satch]

Vibes to all who have to go through this. I just found out one of my dearest friends has only a week or two left. He’s been in hospice for a few months. So sad to see how fast he just fell apart.

So sorry about your friend.

It's heartbreaking when you live with it day in and day out. You see the slow progression speed up at times and it seems everytime I think it's slowing down the inevitable is happening because she's just getting worse. Fuck this awful soul sucking and undignified regression of the mind. No one deserves this.

[TBS]

My heart breaks for all of you going thru this.
My grandfather started down this road at 88. Big strong guy, tough as nails, high climber in the woods and paid to hunt Bigfoot in No Cal (and was in on the hoax from the get go). Watching the slow demise of a childhood hero was so hard.

@mofro, your SIL’s behavior sounds so much like my mom when cancer metastasized to her brain. Again so heartbreaking.

Wishing all of you peace and strength as you deal with this scourge.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

TBS, that’s about when it started with my grandfather. He was a rigger and faller, drove logs down the Pend Oreille in the’20s. Worked mill ponds. It was so sad when he started his decline fortunately it was pretty fast.


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[gravitylover]

My FIL is more than 5 years into the dementia thing now and there's very little of who he was left. Most of the time he just babbles, the rest of the time he says the same thing over and over until it turns into babbling again. Being a Holocaust survivor all (what's left of) his brain knows how to do is survive so his body just keeps plodding along. He's 97 and in pretty good health considering... This sux to watch and he's about to outlive his benefits that help to cover it. There's no way we can swing over $12k/mo so he might have to leave the facility he's at and move back into our house which will mean we can never leave the house together again and I'll have to do things nobody should ever have to do like hold his dick when he pees.