text: Dementia | Life's Roller Coaster
  Alzheimer's DISEASE Destroys YOU & YOURS Cancer & Heart Attacks Are Different!
  Posted on November 13, 2015 by Greg Lance - Watkins (Greg_L-W)
  many of you reading this web site/blog will have or will have had cancer or a heart attack – so you have had your nose pressed pretty hard against life's exit door. You are also probably past those years of life where you feel immortal, and are now all too well aware that life is moving on!
  You will by now, probably realise, that life is all too like a roll of toilet paper, when you don't have a spare in the cupboard, the nearer the end you come the faster it seems to run out!
  Cancer has been described, by some, as one of the best ways to die, as you continue to function relatively normally until either you recover (or remission) or you you are relatively near the end – The massively impaired tend, as a general rule, to suffer the indignities and or pain for a relatively short period.
  Heart Attacks and strokes however can be far more unkind and threatening, leaving the patient chronically damaged in some cases – a stroke left a friend's Father incontinent, without comprehensible communication skills, visibly angry and wheelchair bound for almost 10 years – many would believe a fate worse than death. Fortunately most outcomes of both strokes and heart attacks are not so cruel.
  Having so far survived various bouts of cancer of various types and also a relatively serious heart attack I don't believe I am alone in fearing Altzheimer's or dementia. Chemo brain is irritating enough, where some of us who have had Chemo experience momentary lapses ion specific areas of memory – mine seem fortunately to be confined to names of people, places and events and only to last a few seconds.
  Just imagine the early stages of Alzheimer's or dementia where all too often one is aware that one is loosing one's mind and will lose one's independence, reason and personality – a fate that can not as yet be controlled.
  What a horror and it is good to see some progress is being made in coping with the disease, all be it taking place at a glacial rate and I regret too slowly for me at my age! All I can do is hope that I will be spared the disease as in Britain today we still have the evil belief that it is kind to put an animal out of its suffering but that we should torture human beings by doing far too much to keep them alive.
  If I find myself faced with Alzheimer's, Dementia or a chronic stroke since my fellow countrymen have opted to permit torture of the chronically impaired, & EUthenasia is denied us, that I have sufficient ability left to take my own life.
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  If YOU want to follow my fight against Cancer from when it started and I first presented with symptoms in Nov-1997 see The TAB at the Header of this Blog. called >DIARY of Cancer ….< just click and it will give you a long list of the main events in chronological order, many linked to specific blog postings.
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