Bad enough having an elderly mother with Alzheimer's but a lady not far from me is coping with something I can't even begin to imagine....
She lost her husband to this disease when he was forty three after six years of suffering.
Her daughter, now thirty nine, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's at thirty....is in a care home and her two children.....eighteen and twelve... are being brought up by gran.....
And there's me moaning because I've got a dodgy knee which plays me up a tad in the cold and damp. I always vow to stop moaning about it when I hear tales such as this. And, to my shame, I never do.
A woman I work with died last year of cancer, very fast onset. She was in her mid 40's with 2 teenage children. She died a year to the day that her husband died from a brain tumour. The children are being brought up by their grandparents now.
She was alovely happy woman the whole way through her illness, not sure I could be that strong...
It seems that it is to do with a gene, OG.....and now, with all else she has had to cope with, there is the worry that the grandchildren, one or both, may be affected......
I guess there is a test that will show.....but....would I want to know at twelve years of age....or at all......I just don't know....
This really got to me today......twittering on about the mizzy weather.....til I read this......x
It's well over 40 years now, but I remember a young man from Durham University who developed leukaemia. At first he was upbeat and made light of it, but as time went on he became more and more ill. He was too sick to sit his finals and was awarded an aegrotat. He died two weeks later.
They do. My friend has Huntingdon's in her family and one of her cousins got it at 16... it progresses much quicker when they are younger too. Very unfair.
Terribly sad. A lady MY me who I knew slightly went to hospital just before Xmas with an asthma attack. She went into cardiac arrest and into a coma - she died last week aged just 38 with young children.
I read about this lady in our local paper, Gness. What made me so sad was that the children rarely visit their mum because they can't bear to see her how she is. How dreadful for them to 'lose' their mum at such an early age.
Jackdaw - elder daughter read at Durham. A year after graduating she attended the wedding of2 friends she'd met there. They'd all had a fun time as students and shared a house. He managed to walk down the aisle and died a week later. She grew up. Yes, gness, it is so, so sad, but we must cope.