Posted on 07/07/2024 3:42:41 AM PDT by dennisw
Funny Grandmother ....she might have been performing for you and family. For your expectations. Or half so doing this.
“this arrogant a$$wipe CNN tool Sanjay Gupta”
‘Tool’ is right, and I always think ‘Sanjay Poopta’ when hearing him.
Some streaming station I listened to used to run his 1-2 minute “A Better Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta” voiceovers on commercial breaks. Always toolish, medical-establishment-favoring, vanilla advice. “Safe and effective.”
Very good n funny and Rest In Peace Your Grandma!
“One last thing to keep in mind. He did have some sort of neurosurgery for “aneurysm, bleed“ and people with those sorts of bleeds to have a higher incidence of neurocognitive decline as they age.”
Good thing that the media thoroughly informed the public about this. /sarcasm
I just read an article on AT by a doctor who said that one of the symptoms of Lewy Body Dementia is visual hallucinations.
I am reminded of the number of times Biden has reached out to shake hands with an invisible person.
This doctor is 100% correct.
For those of us who have lived it and those who are trained in medicine it seemed very obvious that he was in cognitive decline at least four years ago. What I can't figure out is how he has pushed it off this long until now. He seemed to have hit a plateau but so did my late mother. She was at first infirm, confused and forgetful saying things that didn't always match up but she at least knew who we were and such other vitals. When she got lost going to town where she has lived for 40 years we knew the jig was up.
That brandon has some form of dementia should be a foregone conclusion by now and probably was at least four years ago. As to the cause and type of dementia, that is more of an academic discussion but can be an interesting one but has little or no bearing on his qualification or the dangers we have with him at the helm. But anybody with half a brain can see that he is not at the helm, that he is just a figure head. What I can't see is how he manages to play along as well as he does. I guess some of it is a form of muscle memory. Momma would get almost convincingly lucid when she went into teaching mode e that was both her lifelong profession and children were her passion.
I never did consider anyone who has had two surgeries for brain bleeds to be a good candidate no matter what his party affiliation might be.
Hopefully, this will truly be all academic one day and we will get at least a little break from this madness and cliff handing drama but I really doubt it. The drama may change a little but will still be with us.
Why is Hillary still alive? A lot of people thought She had Parkinson’s in 2016. She must have had something else.
If Biden had Alzheimer’s disease, he would have always been on a decline. With Vascular dementia, on the other hand, decline happens after each “vascular event” (stroke), some of which are silent. There is sometimes a bit of recovery following a stroke as the brain learns to make new connective pathways, but usually not back to the level it was before the stroke.
Biden receives the best medical care possible and perhaps will not have any further vascular events between now and the election, in which case he might hold steady at his current impaired level.
I had a loved one who was initially diagnosed with a combination of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Later it was realized he had neither of these, but had vascular dementia for which correct diagnosis he was not treated for a long time.
I remember many people here on FreeRepublic saying that Biden would be gone by the end of the first year of his presidency due to his having Alzheimer’s. For some reason, he can still read a Teleprompter with vigor. That is about all he can do, but it has been enough (until the debate ) to fool a large percentage of Americans with the collusion of the lying propaganda media.
I want Biden as the Dem candidate, but do not think that he will be
NOT PD, but some other sort of brainstem/bulbar palsy. There IS that photo of her looking up at balloons at a DNC event, her mouth agape, speechless (for a change) which was concerning but her persistent choking and later use of a cuirass ventilator (look it up) for several months was a REAL shock.
I don’t know how to post pictures, but I have several of her in a blue dress bulging out in front clearly from a CV. She got better though; drugs and exercise, long walks on the beach with her husband and a medical aide in tow did wonders.
I was one who did not think he would survive more than a couple of years. Instead he is like my oldest tomcat named Boots who should have been named Timex.
Good post, thank you.
My BIL thinks our Chihuahua is a cat. Some days he knows my sister some days he asks her who she is then introduces himself to her. He could not read his birthday card the past couple of years. He can’t add two and two. He can’t remember how to tie his shoes. He walks slumped to one side which is a sign of Lewy Body.
If Biden had Lewy Body he would not be able to even perform as horribly at a debate as he did.
Good point.
Well said.
A friend of mine put it this way - dementia is like a light that is about to go out. It flickers more and more the closer it gets to going out. When it’s on, it can look like it works normally. With Biden, we’ve seen the flickers over the past four-five years, but the past few years, it’s more off than on.
I have suspected he has been treated with something that has allowed him to be more lucid in his brief appearances in the past, but it is no longer working at propping him up. But his gait and posture and brain glitches have been unmistakable over his term and even before.
I, for one, do not believe that media is just now finding all this out, they have just recently been given the green light to report on it.
I would add too…
Near the end, my FiL often got his “will” to do things from me, his primary caregiver. He was more likely to walk, drink, or take a bite of food if I was holding his arm, or holding his spoon or cup. It’s like if I was doing it with him, he could function, but if I just put something in front of him, he switched off.
I wonder if elder-abuser wife Jill is that for him.
Lewy Body Dementia begins slowly and then progresses. In one version, the impaired movement of Parkinson’s comes first, then the decline in cognition a year or so later. That seems to be how things are going with Biden.
Yes, this is more of how it was with my FiL. It wasn’t steady down, it was step down, plateau, step down. But always downward trend.
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