Dementia epidemic?
by Hobie 
, Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, Thursday, December 05, 2013, 08:18 (3999 days ago)
I think we've already seen it, at the polls, in life"style" choices... http://ca.news.yahoo.com/dementia-epidemic-looms-135-million-sufferers-seen-2050-000429...
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Sincerely,
Hobie
Well, that explains the last couple of elections...
...seriously, it is an awful thing. One of my best friends and pickin' pals has early-onset Alzheimer's (age 52) and is deteriorating rapidly. An AWFUL thing.
As you know, Mom died of Alzheimer's...
by Hobie , Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, Friday, December 06, 2013, 18:40 (3997 days ago) @ Boge Quinn
...my brother-in-law's wife's father died of it and we've seen several other instances in younger and younger folks. It was not my intent to make light of it.
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Sincerely,
Hobie
Brother, I know you weren't making light of it...
...neither was that my intent.
My Mom too... Terrible thing... please, smother me with a
by Rob Leahy , Prescott, Arizona, Sunday, December 08, 2013, 22:10 (3995 days ago) @ Boge Quinn
pillow, if/when I get there...No, not quite yet.
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Of the Troops & For the Troops
And my dad...
by rob , Monday, December 09, 2013, 00:26 (3995 days ago) @ Rob Leahy
6'5" 220 and in great physical shape...but he's going downhill fast and it really really sucks watching it. There was a time I thought cancer was the worst killer and now I'm not so sure.
Sad to see and to live with....I have always hoped to die..
by John Meeker , Monday, December 09, 2013, 10:59 (3994 days ago) @ Rob Leahy
suddenly -- say -- in a duck blind, or pulling a deer, or riding past my skills on a steep downhill -- or... y'gitcha idee. In my sleep would be just dandy, too. As long as you're not the driver of the vehicle....badda boomp.
I saw both parents thru that ordeal, and I'd have given anything, had they died when their mind went.
No answers, here,
I Had A Scathing Retort
But I forgot what it was.