-OrLoK- its a terrifying illness. my mum has Alzheimers/dementia. I would not wish it on my worst most evil arch nemesis.
twentytwoelephants Excerpt of the medical records discovered in 1996: "What is your name?" "Auguste." "Family name?" "Auguste." "What is your husband’s name?" – she hesitates, finally answers: "I believe … Auguste." "Your husband?" "Oh, no no no." "How old are you?" "Fifty-one." "Where do you live?" "Oh, you have been to our place." "Are you married?" "Oh, I am so confused." "Where are you right now?" "Here and everywhere, here and now, you must not think badly of me." "Where are you at the moment?" "We will live there." "Where is your bed?" "Where should it be?" Around midday, Frau Auguste D. ate pork and cauliflower. "What are you eating?" "Spinach." (She was chewing meat.) "What are you eating now?" "First I eat potatoes and then horseradish." "Write a ‘5’." She writes: "A woman" "Write an ‘8’." She writes: "Auguste" (While she is writing she repeatedly says, "I have lost myself, so to say.")
-OrLoK-
its a terrifying illness. my mum has Alzheimers/dementia. I would not wish it on my worst most evil arch nemesis.
twentytwoelephants
Excerpt of the medical records discovered in 1996:
"What is your name?"
"Auguste."
"Family name?"
"Auguste."
"What is your husband’s name?" – she hesitates, finally answers:
"I believe … Auguste."
"Your husband?"
"Oh, no no no."
"How old are you?"
"Fifty-one."
"Where do you live?"
"Oh, you have been to our place."
"Are you married?"
"Oh, I am so confused."
"Where are you right now?"
"Here and everywhere, here and now, you must not think badly of me."
"Where are you at the moment?"
"We will live there."
"Where is your bed?"
"Where should it be?"
Around midday, Frau Auguste D. ate pork and cauliflower.
"What are you eating?"
"Spinach." (She was chewing meat.)
"What are you eating now?"
"First I eat potatoes and then horseradish."
"Write a ‘5’."
She writes: "A woman"
"Write an ‘8’."
She writes: "Auguste" (While she is writing she repeatedly says, "I have lost myself, so to say.")
Charliebulldog1
My mom died of Alzheimer’s. I wouldn’t wish that disease on anyone.
LOB90
Was this when Alzheimers disease first was discovered or is it a relatively new phenomenon?
OpanaPointer
Both my parents had ALZ.
And so did my mother.