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To: Straight Vermonter

Way too late for my Mom I’m afraid, but for us 5 children our chances of getting it are higher than normal. We are praying for a breakthrough. Seeing my Mom nine years now in a nursing home slowly fade away from us is heartbreaking. That is no way to go, and I would not want to put my family through that if it happens to me.


13 posted on 07/30/2008 5:36:29 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: NavyCanDo

dude that sounds desperately sad and your mum is in my prayers. i cant imagine what it is like for your family but i truly wish you the very very best..

it truly makes you appreciate how normal ‘huge problems’ people have on a day to day basis are so so unimportant...

good luck and God willing your and your family will have the good days ye so richly deserve.

it does make me realise in some cases in drug trials and i know how important their are but i truly feel there should be a way of getting access to drugs like this if families are prepared to accept the obvious risks.


17 posted on 07/30/2008 5:44:26 AM PDT by Irishguy (How do ya LIKE THOSE APPLES!!!!)
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To: NavyCanDo
That is no way to go

Seen it myself, it's heartbreaking, and of course, no way to go.

19 posted on 07/30/2008 6:00:21 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: NavyCanDo
I hugged my father as I left him yesterday. He doesn't know my name anymore, but when I said, "I love you," he said, "I love you too." He was a Ph.D. Genetics and Anatomy professor who taught medical students for years. He could do anything with his hands from building carports and playhouses to plumbing to carving funny cows and figures out of wood. It is heartbreaking to go through this, but I take comfort in my faith.

Unfortunately I concur with other skeptics that this latest breakthrough is hype. We will see a lot of these "cures" come out as Alzheimers becomes more and more prevalent and fears increase.

29 posted on 07/30/2008 7:01:23 AM PDT by Drawsing (The fool shows his annoyance at once. The prudent man overlooks an insult. (Proverbs 12:16))
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To: NavyCanDo

Lost my mom to that dreaded disease prayers to you and your mom Don’t feel bad if you wish she would just go its normal


33 posted on 07/30/2008 7:28:07 AM PDT by al baby (Hi mom)
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To: NavyCanDo
Nobody knows the pain of this disease unless they have walked there. So very sorry about your Mom. May God strength be sufficient for you and yours.
44 posted on 07/30/2008 9:11:07 AM PDT by easternsky
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