Getting Old

[FierceKitty]

Somebody shoot me first, please!

[Techno]

Don't worry, Matey....You won't know that it's happening. 

A very nice lady from the Alzheimer Society came to see us a few weeks ago.....And gave a very good 'explanation' of what happens with the condition.

Imagine a book case, filled with your own memories in diaries.....Book by book.

Top shelf, are the most recent 'diaries'.....The bottom shelf are your earliest memories, from childhood.

These books aren't stacked particularly well, and are prone to fall over.
Once they've fallen over.....That's it !....They've gone....You can't access them anymore.

Soooooooo....Once the top shelf has fallen over (with the most recent memories)...all that's going to happen is that the shelves below are going to start 'falling over' as well.....
The 'victim' is going to basically regress to childhood, as  'these books' fall over.

Not nice.

Cheers - Phil

[Leman]

FK - careful what you wish for.

[fsn]

What a lovely metaphor Techno.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

If you like a metaphor, doesn't it become like, a simile?

[FierceKitty]

If you like a metaphor, doesn't it become like, a simile?

[FierceKitty]

FK - careful what you wish for.

I ain't joking. Blind, deaf, mad, or impotent - I have no wish to continue on those terms. Not sure about a wheelchair either.

Mad - well, I'm a wargamer, so of course I'm a bit round the twist. That doesn't count; just normal healthy obsessive-compulsive.

[Matt J]

My dad has alzhiemers and he's only 69. This might sound weird but it's not that bad. He doesn't realise he has the condition, doesn't remember that he forgets. It doesn't cause him any pain or distress  (yet) hard work for me but reassured it's not too bad for him.
That's the thing with dementia it affects others more than the patient. If that makes sense.

[Techno]

That's the thing with dementia it affects others more than the patient. If that makes sense.

Certainly does, Matey.....The MIL hasn't got a clue as to how it affects me and Von.....Just lives in her own 'immediately current world'.

Cheers - Phil

[Westmarcher]

Shaved the moustache off today for the first time in 42 years and already I look 20 minutes younger. 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

On porpoise or accidentally?

[jimduncanuk]

After I retired from work I got my eyes laser adjusted so no more glasses, shaved off the mustache and now lots of people don't think I am an old age pensioner.

[d_Guy]

I have had a beard for fifty years. It is now snow white. I am often mistaken for Santa Claus.
I once shaved it of in my forties. It did not make me look even twenty minutes younger.
I made me look like Quasimodo.
In the streets strong men quavered, women fainted, small children became hysterical.
I wore a ski mask for a month until it grew back.

[ErHo]

On porpoise or accidentally?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

But dat be a Dolphin  :-