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Goddammit. I am going to cry. This was a wonderful piece. Empathy in every detail, while still being open enough to satisfy a reader's curiosity. It read like

• Jaruzel 8y ago
  Yup me too. Both my grandfathers had Alzheimer's. I don't talk to my mother anymore (who is 68) so I don't know how she is doing, and my father (70) seems to be OK so far, but he's always been a bit 'scatty', so early signs would probably be hard to detect. I'm in my mid 40s but I've long had a lingering fear that Alzheimer’s will get me at some point. I find it absolutely terrifying at the prospect of losing who I am. On and off I tinker with ways of capturing who I am in some way, or regularly think of ways I could invent support devices to assist me when my brain goes to mush. I am definitely preoccupied with this topic. I doubt though, that I'll ever come up with anything to help; I'm simply not clever enough. I am less intelligent today, than I was yesterday. The anti-depression drugs probably don't help in that regard either. This is why I come to HN every day... The richness of the topics covered, and the knowledge that the comments section is a safe place to share... Please pardon my self-reflection.