[Hetty_Fauxvert]

Terry Pratchett is one of my all-time favorite authors. If he is one of your favorite authors as well, please consider donating the price of a paperback (or even a hardback) to Alzheimer's research, in his honor.

[ccmay]

My sainted FDR-liberal grandma was afflicted with Alzheimer’s, and did not recognize me for the last few years of her life. It is a very unpleasant disease, although I can’t say she ever really suffered. She was no more than a shell of a human being by the end, but she was comfortable and pain-free and surrounded by people who loved her even if she didn’t know who they were.

[Ronin]

Mine too. What a class act!

I'm saving this line because it is so purely Terry -- too bad it's a bit long for a tagline.

Some of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I'm not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found a rusty snake.

[Slings and Arrows]

Ping for true greatness.

[nina0113]

He’s one of my favorites as well. At the moment I have several of his books lent out to different people who are just getting started. The first bag’s always free!

He’s right about the cancer v. Alzheimer’s - I’ve seen both in my own family and cancer IS ‘better.’

I checked the original site for a researcher to donate money to, and don’t see one - do you have a link?

[RedRover]

Save.

[whipitgood]

Going Postal bump!

[techcor]

Sad to hear. His novels are pretty good. They finally made one (Hogfather?) into a movie. I hope he gets good treatment. I think there was a new treatment out using Enbriel or something like that.

[SunkenCiv]

Ping!

[louiselamb7]

Coming from someone who has experienced the effects of Alzheimer's I would like to say ...Like everything else in this life you have to fight to survive you just have a little bit of a more difficult fight ahead of you. I wish you well which goes without saying but keep fighting. I don't think you are one who would give up easily.....x