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  • Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us, it has power over us. When we are prepared to discuss it aloud, we might have power over it. It's thought of as a mental illness and it is a physical illness, affecting the brain. There should be no shame in having it, yet people still don't talk about it

  • God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.

    God   Faith   Flying  
    Pat Head Summitt, Sally Jenkins (2013). “Sum It Up: A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective”, p.376, Crown Archetype
  • I think I'm getting a little bit of Alzheimer's. Just a little.

  • What really scares me is Alzheimer's or premature senility, losing that ability to read and enjoy and to write. And you do it, and some days maybe aren't so good, and then some days, you really catch a wave, and it's as good as it ever was.

    "Stephen King wants to reach out and grab you — with his writing". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2016.
  • My father never feared death. He never saw it as an ending. I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes - - eyes that had not opened for many, many days - - and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love.

    Mother   Father   Eye  
  • Alzheimer's disease is never an 'accident' in a marriage. It falls under the purview of God's sovereignty. In the case of someone with Alzheimer's, this means God's unconditional and sacrificial love has an opportunity to be even more gloriously displayed in a life together.

    Love   Fall   Mean  
  • That so many people respond to me is fabulous. It is like having a kind of Alzheimer's disease, where everyone knows you and you don't know anyone.

  • Our intention is not to create cloned human beings, but rather to make lifesaving therapies for a wide range of human disease conditions, including diabetes, strokes, cancer, AIDS, and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.

    "Company behind the clones: Advanced Cell Technology" by Porter Anderson, www.cnn.com. November 25, 2001.
  • 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.

    "'A butt of my own jokes': Terry Pratchett on the disease that finally claimed him". www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2015.
  • My father lived with me the last five years of his life and passed away of Alzheimer's, and at that point he was saying to anyone who would listen, "We all hated the war in Vietnam." Well, it was easy to hate the war in Vietnam 40 years on.

    Father   Hate   War  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • 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.

    "16 Quick Questions for Dr. Oz" by Mehmet Oz and Joel Harper, www.esquire.com. October 4, 2007.
  • I must admit I am nervous about getting Alzheimer's. Once it hits, I might tell my best joke and never know it.

    Twitter post from Jul 02, 2014
  • With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.

  • These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

  • I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.

  • Forget politics. The real story is the advancements being made in medicine. We're on the verge of conquering cancer and Alzheimer's and numerous other diseases. The DNA revolution has just begun. Scientific advancement usually trumps politics.

    Cancer   Real   Medicine  
    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • Above all, Alzheimer wanted the medical world to recognize that mental illnesses have an undeniable material component. There was an obvious political reason for taking such a position because it could then be established that dementia-like conditions are not part of the spiritual/theological domain, but undeniably biological in origin and therefore not attributable with moral implications.

  • Alzheimer's usually comes later than AIDS, but I decline to call that progress.

  • Do you know what Irish Alzheimer's is? It's when you forget everything but your grudges.

  • [A primate ban] would force us to abandon research that could lead to treatments for Alzheimer's, motor neurone disease, strokes and many other illnesses

  • As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person.

  • Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to be done to raise awareness, which is why I became an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society.

  • Alzheimer's caregivers are heroes.

    "Leeza Gibbons’ Resources for Alzheimer’s Caregivers" by Marie Marley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 31, 2014.
  • I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my mother's life. She was in a care facility that was devoted to just people with memory-loss issues. I found those people engaging and generous in ways that I had not imagined.

    Mother   Memories   Mean  
  • The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he's in now (Alzheimer's Syndrome). Yes, some of the current policies are an extension of the '80s. But the overall thrust of this administration is not my father's - these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don't trust these people.

    "Reagan blasts Bush". Interview with David Talbot, www.salon.com. April 15, 2003.
  • Even slight elevations in blood sugar have been shown to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

  • It's the end game that people dread and that's what I'm scared of

  • Alzheimer's disease is death before death, and I'm terrified of it.

    "It's Too Late to Say I'm Sorry". Book by Joey Comeau, "1e4" story, 2007.
  • Jewish Alzheimer's is forgetting everything except a grudge.

  • 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.

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