Body tends to kill faster than Alzheimer's - once it's full blown.
We'll see. She's been showing symptoms for a long time, and she's been
full blown for about 5 years now, I think. *sigh*
She is the source of great humor sometimes, though, when she isn't
swearing at someone or bundling everything in tissues to hide it or
throw it away. (What a weird phenomenon - bundling. It's one of the
symptoms that I think is unique to Lewey body - but the nursing home
staff has to always go through her garbage cause you never know what
she might have wrapped up and tossed. Last week it was her wedding
ring. *sigh*) When she's semi-lucid she can be hilarious - the things
that minds put together. One day my folks asked her how old she was,
and she said:
Let me check my address book....well, it says here that Brian (my dad)
is 27 and Madeline (my aunt) is 12. There's no number by Evelyn (her
sister). So, she must be getting younger. I guess that means I'm
getting younger, too!
And she was quite pleased to be getting younger.
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:28:14 -0600, dana tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That is the terrible thing... you wind up wishing that the person
> would die already. I remember my aunt telling my mother with a kind of
> horror that the doctor said their mother was very healthy and could
> live for years....
>
> Dana
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Deanna Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:25:39 -0500
> Subject: Re: Alzheimer's
> To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Strokes are actually related to some brain diseases. My grandmother
> 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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