Monday, October 24, 2011

IGNORANCE!!!!!!

THIS  IS HARD TO BELIEVE AND AGAIN PLEASE EXCUSE MY TYPING.
      YESTERDAY I WENT TO BIBLE STUDY BEFORE CHURCH, I RUN INTO PEOPLE WHO WHEN THEY HEAR MY DIAGNOSIS OF ALZHEIMER'S THEY ARE IGNORANT AS TO WHAT ALZHEIMER'S IS.IF ONE MORE PERSON TELLS ME THEY WERE PUT ON SUPPELMETS FOR MEMORY LOSS THAT THEY HAVE ALZHEIMERS IM GOING TO SCREAM.
          I AM NEW TO THISAND TRYIN TO LEARN, BUT I DO KNOW, ALZHEIMERS IS NOT PART OF THE AGING PROCESS, MEMORY LOSS IS BUT NOT THIS DISEASE. I WAS TALKING TO A FRIEND IN CHURCH WHEN I SAID IM IN STAGE 2 AND THERE ARE 5 STAGES.SHE SAID THAT WAS NOT TRUE AS SHE HAS ALHEZIMERS AND TAKES GINCO TO HELP HER MEMORY. THERE ARE 2 WAYS TO GET DIAGNOISED, ONE ON AUTOPSY AND THE SECOND A PET SCAN, MY PET SCAN SHOWED, SEVERE HYPO METOBOLIC ATROPHY OF THE BILATERAL TEMPORAL LOBES. I WILL LOSE ALL NEW MEMORIES BUT REMEMBER LONG AGO, I WILL FORGET MY NAME AND JOE'S NAME, I WIL FORGET TO EAT, I WILL APERIATE AND CHOKE, I WILL WANDER,FORGET TO DRESS AND BATH, SO MANY THINGS TILL I WILL BE ONLY A SHELL.
               JOE PROMISES TO ALWAYS TAKE CARE OF ME BUT HE DOES NOT REALIZE WHAT HE IS FACING, SOMEONE WHO WILL CALL HIM NAMES, FIGHT HIM, LASH OUT AT HIM, BECOME VIOLENT AND NEED TO BE RESTRAINED.HE WILL BE SHOWERING ME, FEEDING ME, DRESSING ME, I WILL B GONE.HE HAS STUCK BY ME THROUGH ALL OF THE FOLLOWING, SYSTEMIC LUPUS, FIBROMYALGIA, PRIMARY CLOTTING DISEASE, DIABETES, DEPRESSION, NEUROPATHY, BEING UNABLE TO WALK AT TIMES, CHRONIC DVT, HEART DISEASE, ATHROSCLORISIS,STROKE, NEVER COMPLAINED ONCE AND WE HAVE ONLY BEEN MARRIED 9 YRS. AT FIRST WHEN I LEARNED OF HE LATST DIAGNOISIS, I TOLD HIM I WANTED A DIVORCE, HE CRIED THEN GOT ANGRY, HE SAID IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH. I JUST ANT TO BE HIS WIFE BUT CANNOT EVEN MAKE LOVE, WHICH I MISS EVERY MUCH.
             ONE OF THEOTHER FACTS ABOUT THIS ILLNESS IS THE YOUNGER YOU GET IT THE FASTER IT PROGRESSES, BY AGE 60 I WILL BE A SHELL, PARTS OF MY BRAIN WILL BE WALNUT SIZE. THESE WILL ALSO KEEP ME FROM WRITTING MY NAME ECT. PEOPLE DO NOT DIE FROM ALHEZIMERS, THEY DIE FROM PHEUMONIA FROM ASPERATING.
            PLEASE IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO SAYS THERE MEMORY IS GETTING BAD, DO NOT TELL THEM YOU THINK IT IS ALZHEIMERS, TELL THEM TO GET TESTED. I DID NOT GET TESTED AS I THOUGHT IT WAS FIBRO FOG FOR THE LAST 2 YRS. THERE ARE 2 MEDS EXCELON PATCHES WHICH CAN SLOW DOWN THE DISEASE, ALSO ARICEFT WHICH MAKES ME VERY ILL. THERE ARE CLINICAL STUDIES BUT YOU HAVE TO BE HEALTHY FOR THOSE. I HAVE TURNED THIS IVER TO GOD, HE HAS A PLAN AND WILL HEALME ONE DAY, IN THE MEAN TIME I HAVE JOE MY LOVER, MY FRIEND, NOW MY NURSE, HE WILL NEED ALL OF YOU AS HE IS TRYING TO BE STRONG BUT IS FALLING APART ON THE INSIDE. HE HAS HIS OWN ROOM JOESCORENER ON FB.
                   I LOVE YOU ALL, AND I LOVE MY SISTER LORRIE WHO IS FAR AWAY BUT LSTENS WHEN I CALL, MY OTHER SIBLINGS HAVE THERE OWN LIVES AND DO NOT CARE. I HAVE A SON THAT IS IN PRISON FOR COMING TO SEEME LAST YR WITHOUT PERMSSION FROM PROBATION, THEY GAVE HIM 1 1/2 TO 7 FOR VISITING HIS SICK MOM. I ONL PRAY IF HE GETS OUT IN MAY I WILL BE BLE TO GET ENOUGH PEOPLE TO CONTACT HIS PO SO I CSN SEE HIM AND MY GRNDCHILDREN BEFORE I AM LOST FOREVER.
      ALZHEIMERS IS YET ANOTHER UNSEEN ILLNESS WHERE PEOPLE THINK YOU ARE NOT ILL BECAUSE YOU TRY NOT TO LOOK IT. I TRY TO GET DRESSED EVERYDAY I CAN GET OUT OF BED, I TRY TO PUT MAKEUP ON SO I FEEL BETTER, BUT HELL IM SICK, LIKE SO MANY OF US. ALL MY BEAUIFUL FRIENDS, YOU ARE ALL SO PRETTY AND HEALTHY LOOKING, WE NEED TO STOP THE IGNORANCE............
            I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR FOLLOWING M BLOG AS IT IS VERY HARD FOR ME TO TYPE BUT IF IT HELPS ONE PERSON, JUST ONE MY LIFE WILL HVE BEEN FOR NOT.. I LOVE YOU AND WILL POST AS LONG AS ICAN

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