Posted on 10/01/2018 8:54:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
Ted Turner, the media mogul and cable news trailblazer, revealed in an interview set to air this weekend that hes coping with a brain disease known as Lewy body dementia.
Turner, 79, opened up to CBS Sunday Morning at his 113,000-acre ranch near Bozeman, Mont., saying while his disease isnt fatal like Alzheimers, it leaves him tired, exhausted and, most of all, forgetful.
Its a mild case of what people have as Alzheimers. Its similar to that. But not nearly as bad. Alzheimers is fatal, Turner told CBS. Thank goodness I dont have that. But, I also have got, lets the one thats I cant remember the name of it.
Turner continues after a pause: Dementia. I cant remember what my disease is.
Lewy body dementia is a type of progressive dementia that leads to a decline in thinking, reasoning and independent function, due to abnormal microscopic deposits that cause brain cell damage over time, according to the Alzheimers Association.
The Mayo Clinic says that symptoms can include visual hallucinations, changes in alertness and attention, and Parkinson's disease-like symptoms such as rigid muscles, slow movement and tremors. Risk factors include being over 60, male, and having a family member with the disease, according to the clinic.
The late comic Robin Williams suffered from the disease.
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He was actually quite prescient to conceive of the whole idea of 24-hour cable news. Everyone in the industry laughed when he first proposed it.
I am so sorry. Offering prayers for your son and you.
Though we get angry, and indeed I do, let’s please lift his soul up in prayer. Father, allow us to look past his actions and reflect upon our own sins during the days we walk upon this earth. Our anger at his earthly pride and failings ought not to stop us from wanting to save him from the placement of Hell. We should want him to accept the Blood of Jesus to cover his sins so that he is saved and may speak out to others who are lost. Allow please, Father in Heaven, for the man to come to realize that without Jesus Christ as his Redeemer he will forever be in darkness. We all have failed to earn the Grace of the Blood of Jesus. May we remember this and ask for the Grace of the Blood of Jesus to be upon this man so he may come to know Jesus before his death. Amen.
Its a mild case of what people have as Alzheimers. Its similar to that. But not nearly as bad. Alzheimers is fatal,
Don’t count on it Ted. LBD affects everyone differently. Took my father in about one year at age 86.
Lewy body dementia is fatal. My father in law died of it in June of 2017.
Prayers for him.
I’ve worked in Health Care......We do not ask what Party patients affiliate with...
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In the past year I have met hundreds of doctors and nurses. I don’t have a clue what the political leanings are of any of them.
Just one reason we always lose. We're too nice. I don't wish him death, but I look forward to the day he faces judgement.
Pffft. I thought he was brain damaged when he married that commie, Charlie pass-around.
If the name is Soros, then yes, I do.
He is unmarried and has five children, so I assume the children will inherit the companies which own all his holdings. They may be active in running his companies already. He raises bison and cattle on some of his ranches for the Ted’s Montana Grill restaurant chain.
Good luck to him.
That’s right, it was Ted Turner’s idea.
Was a brilliant idea but I wish they’d improve upon it and present the news live and up to date that way.
I don’t wish anyone any disease. I think it is awful how we go through life with so many different turns, loves, making headway as we move into adulthood with logic and money and all to reach the conclusion of our lives with some awful disease, accident, whatever, leaving behind loved ones crying.
Life at the end. It really is a mystery what it is all about.
My heart goes out to Ted Turner to have to suffer this disease as to all of us who have to die at all.
His brain disease was communism. Eff him.
I feel for you FRiend....
If I could ever help...let me know.
A. I think Turner was big on the “Colorization” of old black and white movie classics. I recall it was very controversial at the time. The technique has likely improved since the 1980’s. It was strange watching old Cowboy Movies now colorized, and all the Cowboys wearing snow white shirts, the
skies all the same bright, harsh ultramarine blue. All the womenfolk wore the same candy apple red lipstick.
B. I think DJ Casey Kasem also had Lewy Body disease.
Robin William got it early.
Pray for his soul because according to his ex-employee Stuart Varney Ted is a militant atheist.
“Do you typically wish death upon people with whom you disagree?”
Well, yes...we “disagreed” with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, not to put too fine a point on it. Now it’s the modern democratic party we “disagree” with. I personally do not wish good health and fortune on those literally trying to destroy me, my family, our culture and country. I am not attributing the latter to Mr. Turner...I don’t know enough about him.
You are so right. I interviewed for a job with Ted when I was recently out of college. His company wasn’t much more than a bill board company with some TV holdings. He was very impressive in person and as a young college grad I was overwhelmed that he spent over three hours with me. I ultimately turned him down because I didn’t want to leave Texas for Atlanta.
Is that Lewy’s body????
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