[guide.chat] In Reply To: Lost Marbles3

From: "Elizabeth Kay" <ebeth.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "James Liddell" <james.liddell2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Guide.chat" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:02:41 +0100

Thanks for undrestancing James. It is so sad when people we have loved become 
lost to us through dementia. We like to remember them as they used to be and 
hope  they will be treated with the respect and care they deserve. Elizabeth 

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From: James Liddell - Email Address: james.liddell2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent On: 30/08/2012 12:24
Sent To: Elizabeth Kay, Guide.chat - Email Address: ebeth.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, 
guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: In Reply To: [guide.chat] Lost Marbles

Absolutely, Elizabeth.
Sadly, while the majority of dementia sufferers develop this condition in later 
life ( my aunt had it, as did my mother, though she died while it was still in 
its' very early stages), I know of two examples that frighten me.       My last 
remaining aunt has complete dementia. She's 83. She started showing symptoms 
when she was only 45. By the age of fifty, she knew no-one. She is physically 
healthy, but mentally, there is simply nothing there. It is so soul destroying 
for her family when they visit: what can they do, or say, to someone who is 
beyond stimulation?
The other example is of a boy I was at school with. He started developing 
pre-senile dementia at only thirty years  old. It's a horrendous thing to say, 
but, fortunately, he died of complications following surgery when he was forty 
eight.

On the other hand, I have a friend who regularly completes the Telegraph 
Crossword in less than fifteen minutes. He has written poetry, prose and, at 
the moment, he is trying to learn the computer....at the age of 103!

-----Original Message-----
From: Elizabeth Kay - Email Address: ebeth.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent On: 30/08/2012 12:10
Sent To: Guide.chat - Email Address: guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [guide.chat] Lost Marbles

I have recently been very upset to learn that a friend I have known for many 
years as an intellegent and lovely woman has been diagnosed with dementia. 
Along with others of her friends I have observed for some time that she has 
become forgetful and confused and have feared the worst. I also had a sister, 
formerly a hospital sister,who suffered from the same disability. She did a lot 
of silly things and I daresay some people would find them amusing but Iwould 
never dream of talking about them.  This could happen to any of us.  Elizabeth

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