#alzheimer

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

Doesn't matter whether it's a teen girl who's pregnant, hasn't told her parents, or an elderly couple dealing with one of them being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Those are real people to me. Those are the people I dealt with every single day. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#being #couple #day #dealing #dealt

You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#alzheimer #benefits #biggest #coffee #first

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#cure #deteriorate #devastating #disease #family

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#alzheimer #anyone #better #brain #got

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#alzheimer #any #atrophy #best #could

I'm always giving myself the Alzheimer's test. My shrink told me to do this. It takes one minute. You name every word that comes to mind that begins with the letter F. ↗

— Ray Romano

#alzheimer #begins #comes #every #giving

In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#alzheimer #arthritis #burdens #cancer #chronic