Okay, I probably spelled that wrong. But oh well. Has anyone ever heard of this disease? it really has nothing to do with teenagers, because it usually strikes 60+ people. It affects the brain and causes it to shrink (sorta like the "This is your brain on drugs" pictures) and makes the person forget stuff. not just stuff, everything. There is no cure and no way to prevent it. It reduces even the strongest minded individual to a bedridden pile of bones who has forgotten how to eat and walk. My grandma has this disease and believe me, its awful. Right now I'm listening to her talk to herself in the room next to mine. Its really sad. Why isn't this issue as importan or well-known as AIDS? At least you can prevent AIDS - don't have unprotected sex and check blood tansfusions - but there's no way to prevent Alzheimers. Maybe because people care more about young people who have a life ahead of them than old people who have already lived their life? But what about those peoples familys members, like me? what about my mom, who has to force my screaming grandmother onto the toilet twice a day? what about my little sisters, whose only memory of their grandma will be of fighting over who has to sit next to her at dinner? It is a truly heartbreaking disease, and I wish more people cared about it.
I dunno, ibuprofen thickens the blood, doesn't it? I would think asprin would be better....I take asprin alot...so I don't have a heart attack some day
Yeah I know about the aluminum my friends mom only buys her organic deodorant because apparently there's like aluminum in deodorant! So that's kinda freaky....
and I've heard that taking lots of ibuprofen is good against Alzheimers. lol I take ibuprofen all the time now.
this is just a little excerpt from something I was reading...
quote: They looked at one of the genes which increases the risk of Alzheimer's, and that wasn't the explanation. What did stand out was the lower level of coronary risk factors like cholesterol in Nigerians.
So while the world worries about aluminium pots and Alzheimer's risk – it may have more to to do with what's cooking inside the pot.
There are alot of diseases with no cure and we need to do more about alot of them!
I also fear both my grandmothers have Alzheimers, they both forget stuff all the time. One can tell me something and an hour later forget she ever told me. The other one lives far away, I hear she is bad...and she forgets my birthday every year..
I hope I don't get it....I heard it is caused from stuff collecting in your brain throughout your life. Like little pieces of aluminum from drinking out of soda cans and such...I have to look into this more. But I don't drink out of cans since I heard that....
Ok my grandma won't let my mom feed her anymore and if she sits still for more than a few hours she gets this horrible sores wherever the skin has been touching anything...and we don't want to take her to the hospital because they would just hook her up to machines and feed her through tubes and put her on breathing machines and she wouold just be there forever for years and years not doind anything. So my grandma is going to die soon! ANY-DAY-NOW-KIND-OF-SOON! So why don't we just tell our STUPID RAVING-HORMONES TENNAGERS TO NOT HAVE SEX SO THEY WON'T DIE SO WE CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT DID NOTHING to deserve a slow painful heartbreain death!! This world has gone crazy! ABSOLUTELY CRAZY! People spend thousands of thousands of dollars trying to "EDUCATE" crummy teenagers about "SAFE" ways they can satisfy their lust but the freakin teenagers don't care! People are SO STUPID...
Huh what did you say? J/K What do you mean I am not superman! I got the tights to prove it and in the 1980's when bush was president and your mom and dad were brother an sister, yes I want cheese on that you car pocker playing no good who were you again? What do you mean my son you cant be you are only two feet tall in 1980. Try dealing with this and then tell me why its not a funny disease. I know it hurts like hell at first but now we are into the living part instead of the no you know better than that and who I am.
My grandma has Alzheimer. It's a very horrible disease because her body works out fine for an 80 something year old, but her mind doesnt work at all.
She doesn't know who i am, or my mom, or her sister, she just recognizes my dad, which is her only son. My friends grandma suffers from it too, and she could go to eat and ten minutes later saus she has to eat because she cant remember eating.
The disease affects her in a way that she forgets everything, and goes to be like a little kid, she looses the control of her nervous system, she has to wear diapers. Its awful.
I think it doesnt receive much attention as AIDS because 1st it is a disease who mostly affects old people, though there are cases of young people getting alzheimer, but its rare... then it isnt a virus, thank God, so not a lot of people have it, and last because of what i mentioned before, your body continues to work "well" for being an old person... its your mind which is messed up.
alzheimer's is truly a heartbreaking disease. i can't imagine many things worse than having a loved one not recognize you.
it's true - alzheimer's doesn't get the face-time that HIV/AIDS does. and part of that reason is an important difference: as you said, there are ways to lower the risk of contracting AIDS. there isn't a whole lot known about avoiding alzheimer's. so the educational outreach is more important in AIDS because we can actually reduce the number of infected people by teaching everyone about it. telling everyone about alzheimer's would raise awareness, but i don't know how much good it would do in terms of reducing the number of patients.
and don't think that alzheimer's isn't that important. million of dollars in research are spent every year on learning more about the disease. just because something takes a backseat to AIDS doesn't mean that it's unimportant.
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