ALZHEIMER'S, THERE IS NO CURE
Not all oldtimers have Alzheimer's even though they tend to forget to recognize a friend or remember the end of a story they just read or repeat what they just said a dozen times or more. They can't recall all they should and they aren't good at math and chemistry, psychology and philosophy even though they have a master's degree, a Ph.D. and studied copiously In everything from A to Z.
If they don't know their name or the dame they bedded minutes ago, so what! What they've got most seniors get. A senior moment is the excuse,they're just a little loose in the caboose and lacking mental juice. They just need inspiration to induce better use of their supreme, extreme mentality.
But when they ain't so bright in the brain and complain about mundane things like rain in Spain and such and are out of touch with reality you suspect there's something not quite correct happening to their intellect.
The truth is, no matter how bright or lucid you used to be, the Big A can happen to you one sunny day when all your marbles roll away or in the dark of night when gray matter gives up the fight and you become an empty shell without a memory to keep you company.
That's what Alzheimer's does to you and there's nothing you can do. You're locked inside, there is no cure, you hide and wait while science and politics debate on the morality of stem cell research, opposed by Bush and the church. And while they blather endlessly the victims live in vacuity.
If they don't know their name or the dame they bedded minutes ago, so what! What they've got most seniors get. A senior moment is the excuse,they're just a little loose in the caboose and lacking mental juice. They just need inspiration to induce better use of their supreme, extreme mentality.
But when they ain't so bright in the brain and complain about mundane things like rain in Spain and such and are out of touch with reality you suspect there's something not quite correct happening to their intellect.
The truth is, no matter how bright or lucid you used to be, the Big A can happen to you one sunny day when all your marbles roll away or in the dark of night when gray matter gives up the fight and you become an empty shell without a memory to keep you company.
That's what Alzheimer's does to you and there's nothing you can do. You're locked inside, there is no cure, you hide and wait while science and politics debate on the morality of stem cell research, opposed by Bush and the church. And while they blather endlessly the victims live in vacuity.
posted by Ed Weiland at 10:10 PM
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