Don't you think worse than havin cancer to die from would be Alzheimer's!
Question: Just watched an old movie that i had never seen before with Mia Farrow and Martin Sheen and i was spellbound to what this woman was going through. I had rather die from anything but having my brain destroyed with this disease. What about you?
Answers: Just watched an old movie that i had never seen before with Mia Farrow and Martin Sheen and i was spellbound to what this woman was going through. I had rather die from anything but having my brain destroyed with this disease. What about you?
Alzheimer's is a devastating disease that breaks the heart of many. I helped care for a neighbor a couple of years back who had Alzheimer's and it was sad to see her be slowly reduced to almost pretty much a child. She had been a teacher, librarian, and bright and active woman, who was an avid reader. It was hard for me to watch and I know it was very painful for the family to lose her, piece by piece. The hardest part to watch was when she couldn't understand or do some basic things she had always done before, but still understood enough to know she wasn't quite right.. She was fortunate though in that she died before she ended up having to be put in a nursing home. So at least her last days were spent in her own home around her family which brought them some comfort. Even in her confusion, that was better for her to be at home with loved one's living there. And yes, although I've lost many in my family to cancer and that was awful, I would choose that over Alzheimer's any day.
My Grandma died of Alzheimer's, it was terrible, we "lost" her years before she actually died. Now my Uncle that I love very much has it, it breaks my heart. It sucks. I've also worked with Alzheimer's patients, the disease sucks every bit of who they were before out of them and they live in that terrible state for years.
My step dads mom had both dementia and alzhiemers. I did not know her before she was sick. What sucked for her personally is that she knew when she had had an episode. She sometimes remembered what happened and sometimes not, but she always knew when she had 'lost time' as she called it.
On the other hand, I know from personal experience that cancer is pretty darn just as bad. I dont know that I could really say one is worse than the other, but they are both pretty bad in different ways. I have spent most of the last 3 years admitted to the hospital being sicker than you could ever imagine. I am not sure what I have expereinced is any better than what she experienced.
Ironically, I think "everyone else" suffers more from someone having Alzheimer's than the patient themselves does...
I think if someone loses their ability to think for themselves it would be the worse..I had an aunt who died of that and sometimes I think my wife has a touch of it..it isnt pretty either.
It isn't a competition. They are both devastating diseases. Just because they are different does not make one worse or better than the other.
I have had cancer myself, I have lost family members to it and I have two family members with Alzheimer's.
Oh I think cancer is worse K. In the last stages of Alzheimer's most have no clue about anything going on around them. It's very sad for us to watch though.