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What makes Alzheimer's so awful is the slow pace at which it takes away the people you love. You see them slowly disappear while still being physically there,
by sbarre 11y ago
What makes Alzheimer's so awful is the slow pace at which it takes away the people you love. You see them slowly disappear while still being physically there, over the course of years, and there's nothing you can do.
I lost my grandmother to it, and it was an incredibly, and increasingly, painful 5 years for the entire family, to the point where we felt relief more than grief when she finally passed.
I can only hope they find a cure or a treatment.
- sokoloff 11y agoVery similar experience with my grandfather who passed this summer. It's hard to pinpoint which stage of the disease is "the worst". Is it the very early onset where the patient is still largely "there" but knows of the inevitable decline, the middle stages where your function is so degraded that you can't live fully alone, but you recall what it was like just a few years ago to be able to live at home and you have no particular physical infirmity to suggest that assisted living is right, or the end stage where you can only recognize a few people and display significant concern/fear/mistrust of the nursing staff who are doing their damnedest to help you? Each stage is terrible in its own right, and the disease progression proved to me that there are indeed medical fates far, far worse than death.