My college room mate (with whom I have kept in touch all of these centuries) and I regular shared our experiences in watching our parents sink into dementia and cry about it. As Rick likes to put it, aliens have stolen mom's brain.
I have now lived with my father-in-law's Alzheimer's and death; my father's misdiagnosed dementia (most likely Parkinson's) and death; and my mother's vascular dementia and current decline. And, given her family history, I will likely live thru my wife developing Alzheimer's.
Dementia sucks. How the federal government can justify spending huge amounts to deal with ebola in Africa and virtually none on research for cures for dementia leaves me wondering who sets the priorities. Certainly no one with a speck of common sense.
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