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03-18-2008, 06:44 PM
|  | A Hard Rockin Lover of GREENBURST Moderator | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Where I lay my head is home | |  Are you frightened by the prospect of a future with Alzheimer's for yourself ?
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Are you frightened by the prospect of a future with Alzheimer's for yourself ? I probably wouldent deal with that prospect very well.
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03-18-2008, 06:49 PM
| | | | Yes. Both sides of my family are plagued with Alzheimer and Parkinson. I just don't want it to happen too soon. |
03-18-2008, 07:03 PM
|  | layin' it down like pavement | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: North Kingstown, Rhode Island | | | Yeah, and to make matters worse, I just saw on the national Nightly News tonight that a new study out concludes that 1 in 8 can expect to have Alzheimer's in their old age. That's 18%...Now that's a big number and it got my attention... )-(
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03-18-2008, 07:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | My Mom has it BAAAAAAAAD now. I think I have it also. Not bad, just a bad memory.............Like...........where the hell are my keys............my cell phone...........my wallet.............my glasses  
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03-18-2008, 08:37 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Maine/Vermont | | | Nope, because I'm a smoker, and smoking has a negative correlation with Alzhiemers and Parkinsons.
I'm getting ready for the lung cancer, though. |
03-18-2008, 08:38 PM
|  | is, against all odds, still a scuba viking. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | | YES!!!
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03-18-2008, 09:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Seattle, WA | | There is growing evidence that music, language, and learning new skills (like flying an airplane) stave off Alzheimer's.
This was one VERY fascinating program that I watched on PBS... http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007...lasticity-pbs/ |
03-18-2008, 09:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Dundee, Scotland | | | No. |
03-18-2008, 11:13 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: San Francisco, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by doktorfeelgood Yeah, and to make matters worse, I just saw on the national Nightly News tonight that a new study out concludes that 1 in 8 can expect to have Alzheimer's in their old age. That's 18%...Now that's a big number and it got my attention... )-( | If these are your math skills now, you can't afford to lose much more mental function. |
03-18-2008, 11:16 PM
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Employee - Basscentre Melbourne | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | yeah, my grandma has severe dementia, doesn't really even know who my mum is (her daughter). Its hard and pretty sad. It runs in my family...
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03-18-2008, 11:19 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rochelle, Illinois | | | I used to work in a nursing home and I saw elderly people dying from many different causes. None of them scare me except Alzheimer's. I could handle cancer or diabetes or heart disease or anything else but I absolutely do not want to spend years in a deteriorating body with a mind that has long since quit functioning.
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03-19-2008, 05:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: On The Bayou | | | NO...no history on either side of the family. |
03-19-2008, 05:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan | | Quote:
Originally Posted by c-ba55 If these are your math skills now, you can't afford to lose much more mental function. | KeithBMI's zing of the day. |
03-19-2008, 05:59 AM
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Builder: Valenti Basses | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Staten Island NYC | | | No because living in fear of what might happen isn't worth it. |
03-19-2008, 06:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Ottawa, Ont | | | No I am not. I don't see why you should be, cause frankly once you get there you won't even know. no use fretting over it now.
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03-19-2008, 06:18 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harpers Ferry WV | | | My great-grandmother before she died thought I was her second son when I went to visit her. Just to give her solace and at least something as simple as to see a smile on her face I would acknowledge it. |
03-19-2008, 06:29 AM
| | Good Bassists Don't Forget Anything | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Vaudreuil-Dorion, QC Canada | | | No, I don't.
And you gotta look at the good side of it; if you do get Alzheimer's, you keep meeting new people!
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03-19-2008, 06:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | Im not, chances are heavily weighted towards any of us in the western world dying of either Heart Disease or Cancer (Heart Disease is still higher up than cancer, just).
Every male in the family on my mums side had a heart attack at 50, (not during thier 50s, but actually 50!). So im not looking forward to that possibility. But they all seem to survive it well, my grandad had four heart attacks between 50 and 79, and his heart was still really healthy when he died apparently (cancer) Quote:
Originally Posted by falstro No, I don't.
And you gotta look at the good side of it; if you do get Alzheimer's, you keep meeting new people! | Always a silver lining
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03-19-2008, 06:45 AM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | Heck, I wouldn't remember I had it. It would suck for my family though. Put me on an ice flow and let me float off.
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03-19-2008, 06:47 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: 3rd stone from the sun | | | Worrying about Alzheimers is like paying a debt you may have never owed. So... no.
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