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Living with Alzheimer's, ex-Sen. Proxmire is cut off from his storied past
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^
| January 26, 2003
| Katherine M. Skiba
Posted on 12/02/2003 2:22:50 PM PST by Mr. Morals
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To: JoeSixPack1; You Dirty Rats; lonestar
My heart goes out to you all. My father died of Alzheimers at age 69. Someone once corrected me rather patronizingly and said that no one dies of Alzheimers, so I said, okay, he died of pneumonia (which he wouldn't have gotten had he not had Alzheimers), if that makes you happy. It's a horrid disease. Fortunately, as a veteran with a service-connected partial disability (injured aboard ship in blackout conditions in WWII), we were able to find a fairly decent nursing home for the last six months of his life whose costs the VA covered, more or less.
Regardless of my opinion of Proxmire's politics, I do sympathize with his family.
To: mountaineer
Alzheimers clouds the autonomic functions as well as the conscience functions of the brain in the later stages. Breathing, heart pumping etc.
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12/02/2003 6:08:22 PM PST
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JoeSixPack1
(POW/MIA Bring 'em Home, Or Send us Back!! Semper Fi)
To: Mr. Morals
Bump.
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12/02/2003 10:12:43 PM PST
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First_Salute
(God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
To: JoeSixPack1
Bump.
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12/02/2003 10:15:31 PM PST
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First_Salute
(God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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