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> I won't even recognize what I lost Alzheimer's victims know what they lost, until rather late in the disease. It's part of what makes it a hell.
by skookumchuck 8y ago
> I won't even recognize what I lost
Alzheimer's victims know what they lost, until rather late in the disease. It's part of what makes it a hell.
- drhodes 8y agoA demonstration: This American Life, https://www.thisamericanlife.org/583/itll-make-sense-when-youre-older https://www.thisamericanlife.org/583/itll-make-sense-when-yo... Act Four, A physicist with dementia details the process of understanding an analog clock.
- taneq 8y agoMy maternal grandparents both went that way. Apparently long after they were both essentially 'gone' the nursing home staff would occassionally find them in the main living area, late at night after everyone was meant to be asleep, dancing together. Clearly something of their former selves remained.