Well, of course Alzheimer’s is there well before one finally is aware of it. DUH. How is this news?? Is this something President Reagan should be ashamed of?? It’s an illness and it wasn’t his fault. It wasn’t like he was insane like Loughner and people were hiding it from the public. He was starting to become forgetful or occasionally confused.
Everyone who ends up with Alzheimer’s was once in the stage of “coming down with” it. It doesn’t discriminate if you live in the White House or on the subway grate on Main Street.
We need to fight this evil disease. I hate it more than cancer.
RE: “Well, of course Alzheimer’s is there well before one finally is aware of it. DUH. How is this news?? Is this something President Reagan should be ashamed of?? It’s an illness and it wasn’t his fault. It wasn’t like he was insane like Loughner and people were hiding it from the public. He was starting to become forgetful or occasionally confused”
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Exactly — I was aware of ‘changes’ in my mom’s demeanor about eight years before it was clear she was at the least senile and at worst, afflicted with early stage Alzheimer’s. Mercifully she passed away from heart disease before the ‘senile dementia’ totally took over.
Who among us here, over age 50, hasn’t experienced his/her own ‘moments?’ Does that mean we should be put out to pasture now? We may get worse....or not... Reagan got by just fine in the White House even if the final couple of years were a little bit dicey.
Little Ron needs to go away — I thought we’d heard the last of him long ago. But obviously he plans to take full advantage of his dad’s 100th ‘birthday’ celebration ——— still a spoiled brat after all these years.