Comment Re:Is absent mindedness something you can "cure" (Score 1) 230
Alzheimer's is not absent-mindedness.
My mother - barely into her seventies - forgets the topic of a conversation while she's having it. She can't track what she's doing while she's doing it. She's a wonderful cook -- or she was. But now she's not safe in a kitchen. I've been married since 1987; but she doesn't always remember that. I've lived on the opposite coast from her since then -- but she still asks when I'm stopping by for supper, or just to say hi.
This is not inconvenient -- it's devastating. To her, to us, to her friends, to everyone around her. If there is a way to cure Alzheimer's Disease, or even to stop the gradual regression of the victim, it would have to have some pretty serious down sides before I'd hesitate.
My mother - barely into her seventies - forgets the topic of a conversation while she's having it. She can't track what she's doing while she's doing it. She's a wonderful cook -- or she was. But now she's not safe in a kitchen. I've been married since 1987; but she doesn't always remember that. I've lived on the opposite coast from her since then -- but she still asks when I'm stopping by for supper, or just to say hi.
This is not inconvenient -- it's devastating. To her, to us, to her friends, to everyone around her. If there is a way to cure Alzheimer's Disease, or even to stop the gradual regression of the victim, it would have to have some pretty serious down sides before I'd hesitate.
