has Lewey Body Dementia - which is Alzheimer's evil step sister. One
of her symptoms is TIA's - or transient Ischemic Attacks. TIA's are
strokes that only last a few minutes and have no long-term direct
effects. Though, it's quite common for TIA's to precede massive &
lethal strokes.
Apparently they're rather scary to watch, and she'd potentially die if
she had one during the night as she's at the point where she's losing
the ability to swallow normally and could end up choking to death
during/after one.
Though this is terrible to say, we're all sort of wishing she would
have one during the night - as she's so far gone at this point as to
have no quality of life.
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:01:06 -0500, G wrote:
> I don't see any relation between a stroke and alzheimer's disease....other than both affect the brain.
>
> A stroke is a very well defined event, whereby a blockage prevents essential oxygen from reaching parts of the brain, wrecking all sorts of havoc. Any dementia which results from this would be listed as just another symptom of the underlying source: the stroke.
>
> Alzheimer's can cause the same type of dementia, but it's source is much more of a mystery, occurrs commonly without evidence of a stroke, and continues to worsen until, ultimately, death occurrs.
>
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