Channel flipping I find someone talking about Alzheimers. How the patient
gradually gets nasty, at first you think its normal relations. Later they are
patently paranoid, delerious (time, date, location), and psychotic (believing
false things are happening, like someone stealing her child, when in fact, the
child's father (and her son-in-law) is walking out the door with his son.) Believing
to the point of threatening to call police (which she was incapable of doing) on me.

I have an undergrad degree in Cognitive Science and know who HM is.
This experience (of several years, several years ago) makes clear that
it was not fun for those who cared about HM.

At least you can watch your favorite movie again, and again, and again.

When my friend with MS got severe, he couldn't read and his memory got
screwed. I got interested in electronic enhancement, and set up a text to voice
system for him. This helped keep him happy for a year. Eventually he took
some cyanide, but told someone and got resusitated (with major brain damage)
and eventually took a second dose, alone, and stopped breathing forever.

Now, I have a male friend who had developed lupus, who had a brain tumor removed.
He has about 5 years. He has a kid under 2 and another the same age (within days)
of mine.

Also had a friend pre-college drive a car into a wall (drunk), and saw another during
a (NSF) science camp (at RPI in Troy) break his neck "garfielding" onto the floor
from a ledge.

Got no living grandparents, saw my great-grandparents though once, they look
like Greenspan. My folks are alive, which is great, and my dad even drinks
wine, which has become my thing too. Though in octaves more than my dad.

My kid has no living maternal grandparents though I have pix of his mat gmother
and him as a wee toddler together. Very nice pix due to the age range. Think 89
year old indian prune and 2 year old whito toddler siting in an oversized
red play bucket in front of her Sari'd self.

BTW, if Saris became popular in the US, all the heavier or variable-weight chicks would
benefit greatly, as the same Sari can be worn at different weight levels. As a male
succeptible to such mass variation I totally appreciate this.

Actually, I am now following the lion diet, one meal a day, which can be arbitrarily
large (though large & dense is bad). Not sure it is optimal for me but it is easy
to follow, and lets me be social with th' guyz at work. The opposite of lion diet is
grazing diet, long periods of low-calorie input.

Over and Mooooo