I try to take Lexi to visit my very elderly aunt in the nursing home on a daily basis when I'm up north. I could write a book about Alzheimer's. In my aunt's corridor, I have seen a Pulitzer Prize winner and the inventor of the pacemaker succumb of this disease......and many other formerly extremely intelligent people. Having worked in the healthcare field for decades, I have known very very bright people who eventually forgot how to hold a spoon to feed themselves. I began to wonder.....did they use up all their good brain cells early in life? I don't have to worry.....no Pulitzer Prize for me! Plenty of unused brain cells ready to go.
Bottom line: Very sad disease......especially for the patient's loved ones.