Posted on 05/01/2015 3:20:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
With his “aw shucks, ma’am” charm and velvety voice, Glen Campbell was a legendary country and pop-music singer, guitarist and Hollywood hot guy. But now, friends and relatives tell me, he languishes in a “mediocre” facility outside Nashville, Tenn., for patients afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease.
He can spend only minimal time with his oldest children, say sources, who claim he is frequently alone except for the company of caregivers and TV crews recording his mental decline.
He wants to go home, they say, and doesn’t understand that the facility is his residence, probably for the rest of his life.
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We still don’t know that it was “misinformation!”
We know that the MSM want every local Police Dept under federal control, but the crap that is presently being pushed on the news has been refuted.
There was no “Wild Ride.” There was no panic stop.
Keep your courage to challenge the MSM on every speck of their propaganda releases.
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I would hope he at least has access to a guitar. Oliver Sacks has recorded many times how, for some reason, loss of memory does not effect the memory of music.
I think that is pretty harsh. FR is loaded to the brim with compassionate people who prove often that you don’t have to experience a horrible disease to feel for those who do.
Isn’t it time to grow up?
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It is obviously the family that is keeping him in a “hope you die soon cage.”
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Hell. Thats my only memory.
So many issues here and I feel passionate about all of them.
1. If you have resources, why would you need to be in a facility? My parents both have Alzheimer’s and they are in a very safe condo with one alarmed, locked entrance, but two safe patio/porches. They have round the clock help, and while most people can’t afford it, it’s not bad. They have home cooked meals and companionship and still have the feeling of being “home” (even though it was a condo purchased for its safety and location). Their things are all around, and they know each caregiver very well. No excuse for Glen Campbell to be put in an institution unless he was really violent.
2. If you are going to be in a nursing home, this is the kind it needs to be, if you are wealthy. A must read: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/a-better-nursing-home-exists/390936/
3. Haven’t we seen from Casey Kasem that keeping loved ones away from their faltering parent is abominable? And yet again we have the latest wife without the children’s best interests in mind. Everyone is happy when their elderly parents find companionship, until that parent gets dementia and that person is the wife and has more say than the children. It’s really tough.
Im both.. Ha ha ha.. well,, I still have blonde too..
I remember them both well .. in their prime of their yute.
Just trying not too upset the putter downers too much.
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Do you want us to kiss it better?
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Look how much bigger his glass of water is too!
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Grow up? Give up a career as a microprocessor architect in LA Jolla to move back to support three older sisters dealing with a dieing mom, pen the eulogy and deliver it from a lecturn in the church you you grew up in with my moms 7 brothers and sister’s and extended family. What a dick!
If you did that, that is very admiral in God's eyes. However, you seem bitter.
No one is questioning your sadness and grief, just your hostility.
While I don't know the whole circumstances around Kirk Gibson, I can say I play softball with two guys who are afflicted with Parkinson's. Al is mildly affected and Larry, in his later 60's, can been seen in the outfield with his glove hand shaking uncontrollably. But neither one is affected when it comes to batting or making a play.
I've spoken with both of them at length regarding their condition and both of them have stated that other than the uncontrollable shaking of their hands, it doesn't affect their lives at all......
Which brings up the question, why is Gibson taking leave from the announcer's box?
Someday you’ll wish that you had loved someone besides yourself.
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