#alzheimer

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#alone #alzheimer #brave #cancer #disease

Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease. ↗

— Pat Summitt

#challenges #combination #competition #disease #endure

Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's. ↗

— Jerry Stiller

#being #getting #me #sitcom #stops

Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's. ↗

— Liz Smith

#alzheimer #announced #charlton #heston #suffering

She is leaving him, not all at once, which would be painful enough, but in a wrenching succession of separations. One moment she is here, and then she is gone again, and each journey takes her a little farther from his reach. He cannot follow her, and he wonders where she goes when she leaves. ↗

— Debra Dean

#alzheimer-s #age

This is the true wine of astonishment: "We are not over when we think we are. ↗

— Alice Walker

#alzheimer-s #age

Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over? ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#chance #love #nicholas #nicholas-sparks #sparks

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#insanity #parents #tragedy #faith

I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 years in the family home. That was tough. ↗

— Doug Davidson

#alzheimer #dad #disease #family #had

I think I'm getting a little bit of Alzheimer's. Just a little. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#bit #getting #i #i think #just