With Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, the people generally don't "comprehend" that they are losing themselves.
I don't know of a person with Alzheimer's killing themselves.
They just fade into oblivion.
My dear grandma had it.
By the end, she still thought she was a nurse, making her "rounds" on patients in her nursing home.
They even gave her a pencil and paper so she could write down her notes.
With Lewy Body disease, the patients usually are very well aware that they are fading, but they don't know why.
I'd think that would be much more terrible, having complete "conscience", but knowing what will happen to you.
I went visit my mom today.
We had a half hour talk. No two sentences went together. She was just stringing together words and phrases from past conversations. I just held her hand and went along.
The time to recognition varies from a second to almost 10-15 seconds now. In a few months I will simply be familiar.
This is the sixth time I have walked this road.
I will not walk it with my kids.
With Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, the people generally don’t “comprehend” that they are losing themselves.
My dad before he passed from it too used to give medical treatments to his stuffed dogs. He was always doing orthopedic things to their legs. Your grandma reminded me of that.