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alzheimer`s
Posted: 30 May 2004
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Degeneration,
passionless
no will at all.
Nothing remembered,
braindead,
all memory gone.
Just lifeless
shocking to none.
Sometimes remember
years gone by,
today forgotten
Who am I?
What of me?
do i have a life?
can't remember
perhaps i should die.
I wish I could put a gun to my head
leave me in peace ,is all I said.
Let me be,let me go,
I am a living dead.
I have alzheimers,so don't pity me.
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 Fearless at 18:10 on 30 May 2004
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It would be bearable to not know that you forgot, to be in that unpuncturable bubble. Alas, you know you forgot something, as amyloid beta protein speckles across one's brainscape, eroding time, experience, memory and ultimately, identity - to sufferer and loved one alike.
A fine poem.
Fearless
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 joanie at 18:12 on 30 May 2004
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Alice, I always think this is such a tragedy. There are so many excellent minds which have gone this way. I don't have first hand experience of this, and hope I never do! Good one.
joanie
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 Nell at 19:21 on 30 May 2004
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Alice, I agree with all of the above. Iris Murdoch was a particularly tragic example - it seems that a great mind and an active brain are no obstacles to this terrible affliction.
Nell.
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tinyclanger at 18:01 on 31 May 2004
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Evocative and sad, Alice. I watched my Nan drift away like this and you capture the pain well.
x
tc
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 fossil at 13:50 on 06 September 2004
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I worked with alzheimer patients in a nursing home where I was employeed in 1994. Some of them were happy individuals, others were confused and frightened at times being locked for a while in a past experience. This piece possibly comes from a loved one who's seen the devastation, or possibly from someone who is first experiencing the disease and still have most of their faculties. Very good.
fossil
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roovacrag at 21:42 on 06 September 2004
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Fossil thanks for looking back on my poems.
Yes this was a friends wife and anothers father.
Such brains that was vivid,now going.
Thank you.
xx Alice
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