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A long overdue trip to the farm was most unsettling as my father-in-law has been overtaken by the cruelest of diseases. Alzheimer's has stolen his ability to recall even the most basic things in his remarkable life. He is beyond the point when he is able to simply recognize those he has known and loved. A person who had the storytellers gift just a few years ago is now unable to share his precious life events.
This was a shocking encounter to say the least. Two revelations for me took hold during our short visit. First was the obvious in that this disease was winning in it's attack on John's mental functions and it is maddening. The second is I just did not know just how strong my Mother-in-law is. Her love for him has always been obvious but her conviction and care for him through this period is most humbling.
She has grown where he has diminished and endures despite the confusion that is now his reality. Her faith in God is where she draws strength and it is obviously needed daily.
There are several Diseases that need to be conquered and dementia and Alzheimer's have to be towards the top of this list.
La malattia di Alzheimer-Perusini, detta anche morbo di Alzheimer, demenza presenile di tipo Alzheimer, demenza degenerativa primaria di tipo Alzheimer o semplicemente Alzheimer, è la forma più comune di demenza degenerativa progressivamente invalidante con esordio prevalentemente in età presenile oltre i 65 anni, ma può manifestarsi anche in epoca precedente.
Si stima che circa il 60-70% dei casi di demenza sia dovuta a Alzheimer disease (AD). Il sintomo precoce più comune è la difficoltà nel ricordare eventi recenti (perdita di memoria a breve termine). Con l'avanzare dell'età possiamo avere sintomi come: afasia, disorientamento, cambiamenti repentini di umore, depressione, incapacità di prendersi cura di sé, problemi nel comportamento. Ciò porta il soggetto inevitabilmente a isolarsi nei confronti della società e della famiglia. A poco a poco, le capacità mentali basilari vengono perse. Anche se la velocità di progressione può variare, l'aspettativa media di vita dopo la diagnosi è dai tre ai nove anni
Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD), also known as Alzheimer disease, or just Alzheimer's, accounts for 60% to 70% of cases of dementia.
It is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and gets worse over time.
The most common early symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events (short-term memory loss). As the disease advances, symptoms can include: problems with language, disorientation (including easily getting lost), mood swings, loss of motivation, not managing self care, and behavioural issues. As a person's condition declines, she or he often withdraws from family and society. Gradually, bodily functions are lost, ultimately leading to death. Although the speed of progression can vary, the average life expectancy following diagnosis is three to nine years.
No parava de preguntar pel boix grèvol
com si n'estés enamorat.
No he sabut que dir-li.
Mai no sé què dir
en aquests casos.
Alzheimer’s disease is the most prevalent reason of dementia that has inflicted an approximate 5.3 million individuals in the United States.
Read about Alzheimer's Disease
Dedicated to Helen Lucero.
Ooh, stop
With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
But there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
Way out in the water
See it swimmin'?
I was swimmin' in the Caribbean
Animals were hiding behind the rock
Except the little fish
But they told me, he swears
Tryin' to talk to me koi koy
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
Way out in the water
See it swimmin'?
[pixies]
One of my favorite photos and one of my favorite songs.
Copied from comments: In my mind, i imagined this man looking back at the blur of events in his life. Since then, my beloved grandmother was afflicted with the evil scourge of Alzheimer's disease and this photo kind of took on a more ominous and scary vibe. Less bittersweet and more sad. I think that's way it's so personal to mE.
This is an older endeavor from me. Back when I first move to LA I used to take my old Canon to work and take pictures at lunch. This looks like it may have been scanned from a print but I'm not sure.
At the "End to Alzheimer's" annual walk, people carry different colored "flowers" that symbolize someone who passed away or someone they are currently caring for.
Χθες βράδυ μόνη της επέστρεψε νικώντας τον ίδιο της τον εαυτό θριάμβευσε η λογική μα το Θεό που κάποιοι δεν πιστεύουν θαύμα φώναξε, κι από μέσα του ο Sinnerman διότι κατά βάθος την φοβάται.
Έπρεπε να βλέπατε το καινούργιο πιστεύω της καθώς περπατούσε δίχως το παιδικό καρότσι, κι έπειτα την ικανοποίηση στο πρόσωπο του Sinnerman κι συνέχεια επί της σκέψεως του το μυστικό του.
Κυρία Taylor σήμερα μονάχη επιστρέψατε μήπως συνέβη κάτι στο παιδί σας και χαμογελώντας ώστε να μην την νευριάσει, κάτι έπρεπε να κάνει σπάζοντας τον πάγο ανάμεσα τους να μάθει το γιατί.
Δεν του απάντησε κι απλώς τον κοίταξε κι έπρεπε να βλέπατε τη χαρά του τι κι αν καμία σημασία δεν του έδωσε αυτός χάρηκε, γιατί όπως σας έγραψα στο βάθος της λογικής του βρίσκετε ο ποιητής.
Λίγο πριν χαθεί μπαίνοντας στο σπίτι της έβγαλε τον αναπτήρα κι αμέσως τον άναψε κοιτώντας τον στα μάτια, κι ύστερα επίσης του χαμογέλασε μα αυτός που χάρηκε περισσότερο ξανά ήταν ο Sinnerman.
Αφότου έφυγε οι σκέψεις του Sinnerman ήταν κάτι σαν από διχασμένη προσωπικότητα το αποτέλεσμα, κι αμέσως τα σύννεφα της Νέας Υόρκης στο πρόσωπο του βροχή δηλαδή μήπως τελικά αποτρελάθηκε.
Αμέσως σηκώθηκε βγαίνοντας στο δρόμο ώστε να έχει καλύτερα θέα στους πάνω ορόφους για να δει αν θα ανάψει τα φώτα, η τον συγκεκριμένο αναπτήρα και μα το θεό όπως ψέλλισε τον αναπτήρα άναψε.
Δίχως να περάσει πολύ ώρα και καθώς κοντοστάθηκε στο παράθυρο με τον αναπτήρα αναμμένο, με το δεύτερο χέρι της άναψε κι άλλον ένα αναπτήρα κι έπειτα τα χέρια της σήκωσε ψηλά στον ουρανό.
Ο sinnerman ξανά στο περιθώριο της περιτριγυρισμένος απ' τη λογική της που για τρέλα μοιάζει με αυτά που κάνει, και στο τέλος πριν επιστρέψει ξανά στη θέση του της φωνάζει θα τρελαθείς.
Με όλα αυτά που κάνεις στο τέλος πραγματικά θα τρελαθείς κι αν τότε τα χρόνια είναι πολλά τότε το ταξίδι σου θα είναι δίχως επιστροφή μονάχη, τι κι αν νομίζεις πως τα πάντα επέτυχες στη ζωή.
Τι κι αν δυνατά φώναξε αυτή μέσα απ' το παράθυρο στεκόταν και τίποτα δεν άκουσε μα κι αν άκουγε σημασία καμία δεν θα είχε, διότι ο άνθρωπος αν τα χρόνια τον προσπεράσουν το μυαλό του δεν αλλάζει.
Υ.Γ...Δίδυμα..."Ο Δεύτερος Αναπτήρας"
Dementia, Alzheimer, it can happen to all of us.
Let's take better care of people in nursing homes
They are still real people, even if they are 'Lost' ..
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The video is made at Murmurations
This is an installation in Second Life made by Lallie Sorbet and Chrix
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLEA6/120/140/3003
Video and Avatar by Myrdin Sommer
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آسف !
لم أعني نسيان يوم مولدك . . !
و لم أشأ تركك تضيئين شموع ليلة البارحة وحيدة . .
أنا فقط مريض / ألزهايمر : )
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موقف مؤلم أظنه تكرر كثيراً بشكل أو بآخر في حياة مرضى ألزهايمر
حويته بقلمي ©
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اليوم العالمي لمرضى ألزهايمر ، السادس من شهر ديسمبر
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All residents suffer a great deal and can't say what is wrong when it comes to remembering the past .
LE MANI DELL'ALTRO
"Orlacs Hände" Robert Wiene's film
"Dobbiamo renderci conto che il mondo
può essere afferrato solo dall' azione,
non dalla contemplazione.
La mano è la lama acuminata della mente."
(Jacob Bronowski)
"Credo che il lavoro dell' erba
non sia da meno di quello delle stelle
nel loro cammino."
(Walt Whitman)
This is my sister who developed Alzheimer at 58. This is one way she deals with it. I purposely made the photo a little out of focus and dark. She is now 65 and struggling.
Une peau mangée de sillons profonds
parsemée de quelques flocons
sur les joues, le menton
un visage de terre d'hiver
et dedans une histoire de 88 ans
que la brume consume, l'effaçant doucement
Paysage d'une vie déshabillée, dénudée, dénuée d'idées.
Rien que le silence de l'absence
Mais parfois s'allume une lune
dans les cieux des ces yeux
pâle lueur, flamme incertaine
fulgurance intense, la douleur au cœur
s'arrimant pour quelques instants
si courts si lourds d'amour
échange d'espoir avant la nuit noire.
.................... Pour tous nos parents, grands parents, arrière grands parents avant d'oublier à mon tour.
For numerous years I've participated in the annual walk to end Alzheimer's. The walk is so well organized with kids from local high schools cheering us along the way and a variety of strategically placed musicians too. For those interested, I wrote a short story about my relationship with my Dad in his final years with the disease that was published in a literary journal. Click here and then move the slider bar to Page 80.
Part of Grayson Perry's Who Are You? exhibition in the national Portrait Gallery in London, glazed ceramic pot.
Perry's comment: Christopher Devas has Alzheimers disease. He was an immensely capable businessman, magistrate & sailor. The tragedy for his wife Veronica is that not only is Alzheimers robbing him of his memory & identity, it is also destroying a large portion of their shared memories. Close couples are joint custodians of each others experiences. Veronica has dubbed the disease 'Altzy'; I have portrayed it as a demonic figure snipping up all their family snaps.
A powerful image.
Erin Gilbert==
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation Seventh Annual Fall Symposium & Luncheon==
The Pierre Hotel, NYC==
November 14, 2016==
©Patrick McMullan==
photo - Patrick McMullan/PMC==
== Erin Gilbert
Ob die Alzheimer Patienten wissen, was das ist? Ich weiß es nicht wirklich.
I will sue you (sorry, no idea how the german word translates).
Marjorie Gordon, George Schiele, Joan Schiele==
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation Seventh Annual Fall Symposium & Luncheon==
The Pierre Hotel, NYC==
November 14, 2016==
©Patrick McMullan==
photo - Patrick McMullan/PMC==
== Marjorie Gordon; George Schiele; Joan Schiele
www.alzheimers.org.uk/forget-me-not-appeal
Myosotis, other wise known as the "forget me not", is a symbol used by Alzheimers charities and for awareness of the desease.
This was taken in the garden earlier in the year. And is dedicated to my Father who had Alzheimers and lost his battle the night before I made this submission.
مرض ألزهايمر هو خلل دماغي سمي باسم الطبيب الألماني ألويس ألزهايمر الذي كان أول من وصف المرض في عام 1906م.ومنذ ذلك الحين,استطاع العلماء خلال القرن الماضي أن يتوصلوا الى الكثير من الحقائق المهمة حول مرض ألزهايمر.واليوم نحن نعرف ان مرض ألزهايمر:
هو مرض دماغي متقدم وفتاك
هناك ما يقارب ال26 مليون شخص حول العالم مصابون بمرض ألزهايمر.يدمر المرض خلايا المخ مما يؤدي الى مشاكل في الذاكرة والتفكي والسلوك تؤثر بشدة في عمل وحياة الأشخاص المصابين به وممارساتهم لهواياتهم المعتادة ونمط حياتهم الإجتماعي.ويتدهور وضع المريض المصاب بمرور الوقت وهو مرض غالبا ما يؤدي إلى الوفاة.ويصنف مرض ألزهايمر اليوم بكونه المسبب الرئيسي السادس للوفاة حول العالم
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