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- notregistering, on 04/27/2008, -0/+165Doctor Who can do anything! Except fix the damn TARDIS camouflaging device.
- Novamaster0, on 04/27/2008, -0/+129Cookie for anyone who thought this was a Doctor Who reference.
- tylerni7, on 04/27/2008, -1/+88Buried for Inaccurate, this has nothing to do with Doctor Who.
- bjornski, on 04/27/2008, -1/+73Dr Who made false claims? And he can "reverse Alzheimer's" with them?
I wish I was a timelord. - billllyboobs34, on 04/27/2008, -1/+44Now the Doctor Who theme song will be stuck in my head all day.
- mmcwhorter, on 04/27/2008, -0/+39Does he use his sonic-screwdriver in this procedure, because it can do just about anything?
- dougvfr750, on 04/27/2008, -0/+37I was hoping this would actually work. We need to find something.... this is a very sad disease
- Alreadyinuse99, on 04/27/2008, -1/+37EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE
- inactive, on 04/27/2008, -2/+34+1 for the Dr. Who mistake.
Buried accordingly.
. - sap959, on 04/27/2008, -0/+28yeah but if he fixed it... it wouldn't look bad ass... or bigger on the inside :P also its called a 'Chameleon Circuit'
- lolbotomy, on 04/27/2008, -0/+24This is sad news, I read about this treatment a while back and it gave me hope. We tried all the available drugs we could for treating Alzheimer's on grandma and none of them really worked, they just cost a lot of money while putting her into different levels of drooling slow-motion-ness, which doesn't help because it just made everything take longer.
My grandmother died of Alzheimer's about a year ago, she lived with us for about 6 months total before she passed. It's a horrifying disease, especially when you think of how it robs you of yourself, but also for any that have to provide supervision.
They end-up asking the same few questions over and over all day long, day after day. It may not sound that bad but it can drive you bat-***** crazy. For example she always asked where her husband was who has been dead for years, and then 5 minutes later would ask again. She would go looking for him everywhere in the house banging on doors calling to him. If you tried to remind her she would just get angry and more determined to find him.
We would help feed her a meal and then before she's even left the table she would start saying stuff like "when are we going to eat?", "I'm hungry and I get nothing", "no one gives me anything". Show her the empty plate you haven't even finished washing yet and she starts an argument with you saying you're wrong and then starts yelling and banging her fists on the table.
You get asked "Where's the bathroom" probably a hundred times a day, we tried putting a giant bright colored "bathroom" sign on the door but she never even noticed it, would walk right by it while muttering "bathroom??". She ended up going to the bathroom in places she shouldn't pretty often, we tried adult diapers but she would just remove them and hide them.
Give her a drink and as soon as she finishes it and sets it down she's asking for another. Do you just give-in and let her drink as much as she wants, ensuring she bugs you about the bathroom an extra 100 times that day, or do you tell her no and then deal with the screaming hissy-fit that ensues? It's no win.
She would wonder around all night through the AM hours. We ended up having to put a lock on her bedroom door to keep her in at night for her own safety because she would explore the house rearranging stuff, turning on all the lights, trying to consume things you shouldn't consume, such as the stuff under the sink. So we also had to put little child-proof latches on all the cabinets and drawers with anything that could harm her.
Then it just got better, and by better I mean worse, she would start banging on the bedroom door and screaming all through the night, calling to her husband who's been dead for years, you would go tell her it's the middle of the night go to sleep and not even a few minutes later it repeats. She would rearrange her bedroom all night long moving furniture around making alot of noise and changing her cloths and spreading all her others clothes all over her bed, which of course made it so she had no place to rest and she would just cause more of a fuss. It's impossible to get a good nights sleep in this situation, and with each passing day it just gets more aggravating because you're already exhausted from the days before and lack of sleep just keeps adding up every day until you feel like a zombie.
Whenever we tried to go out with her it was a total nightmare, she would forget we were her relatives and try to get others to help her. She didn't like being told what to do so we would become her enemy very quickly just for trying to help her move along, she would complain to passers by that "these people give me nothing" even if we had a big meal right before we went out, or even if we went to a restaurant with her she would start yelling at us and complaining to the waitresses that passed by because the food didn't magically appear instantaneously.
I could go on and on and write a novels length here, but I think I've shared enough. Anyone that ends up having to care for someone with this disease will have their lives completely consumed by it. We kind of joked when she was around how this disease is highly contagious, it completely destroys not only her mind but your mind as-well. When you get little or no sleep and have to deal with the same questions and situations over and over and over day after day you end up feeling like you're living in a horror version of Groundhog Day. But it must have been nothing compared to the horror she went through, never knowing the answers to the questions that would pop up in her mind. - Loxias, on 04/27/2008, -1/+23So, if Doctor Who lies to me, then I won't have Alzheimer's?
- Ramble, on 04/27/2008, -0/+21I'm willing to try anything, as long as it doesn't involve a Dalek.
- Ramble, on 04/27/2008, -0/+21It's been noted he didn't want to fix it.
- sap959, on 04/27/2008, -2/+23its called a Chameleon Circuit ... and i love the TARDIS exactly the way it is :)
- sigafoo, on 04/27/2008, -2/+22Buried for me having to re-read this, because you tried to trick us into thinking it was about doctor who...
- spudnic, on 04/27/2008, -0/+20awoooOOOOooooOOOOOooo!
- unpolloloco, on 04/27/2008, -0/+13Like we did in the Dark Ages? Average lifespans of 30 years don't seem very appealing to me..........
- RobotBuddha, on 04/27/2008, -0/+12I've "gone back to nature". I've found that primarily, nature worship occurs in cityfolk who've only actually seen the wild from insular parks and documentaries. Nature wants you dead. It wants you to breed, and then quickly die off so it can eat your rotting corpse. Nature wants you limping around in agony, starving to death, or dying of infections that a simple antibiotic could take care of. ***** nature. Science may make mistakes, but at least there's 'potential' there for compassion on an individual level, and a cherishing of life.
- lolbotomy, on 04/27/2008, -0/+12She was in a home before she came to live with us. We didn't want her to die alone in an institution-like facility. She was put there by other relatives who were not supposed to have any say in it but they lived nearest to her. They were caught stealing money from her bank account. Stuff was stolen from in there and her home as well. When we finally got her out of their care she had only the wedding ring on her hand that couldn't be removed due to swollen knuckles, a broken lamp, one funky dresser, a few robes and a box of letters. Where-as when she was put in the home she had a house full of things she acquired in her and her husbands life, two cars, and an ungodly amount of jewelry. All of which magically vanished in a few years.
And before anyone says "why didn't you give her sleeping pills to help her and everyone else sleep at night?" We did. They didn't work because her brain was so damaged they had little or no effect. - OneLess, on 04/27/2008, -0/+12I totally read the title as a Dr. Who reference too lol
- banmaster, on 04/27/2008, -0/+11I dunno. I'm not at all taken with the Coral Desktop Theme. I preferred the Edwardian Wood Theme personally.
- sap959, on 04/27/2008, -0/+9He's a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. He's 903 years old. If there's Alzheimers, he's the man who's going to save your life - and everyone on your planet. Got a problem with that?
sorry had to done :) - jimmytree, on 04/27/2008, -1/+9EX-TER-MI-NATE THE DOC-TOR!
- unpolloloco, on 04/27/2008, -0/+8Moral of this story: anyone claiming a new miracle cure to anything - be it cancer or the environment - should be heavily scrutinized. Doesn't mean that it won't work, but people shouldn't get their hopes up until it has been scientifically tested.
- melak, on 04/27/2008, -1/+9Real moral of this story - The words doctor and who cannot be put side by side without anyone thinking of a blue police box that is bigger on the inside and a time lord who uses a sonic screwdriver that can fix or break damn near anything - except the chameleon circuit on his big blue box which is only because he doesn't want to fix it.
- RoninKengo, on 04/27/2008, -0/+8needs more Rose.
- diggum85, on 04/27/2008, -0/+8he was researching Alzheimers, of course he forgot...
- Musicmonkey34, on 04/27/2008, -1/+8what a jerk. I got excited that this could help someone in my family. false hope sucks.
- banmaster, on 04/27/2008, -0/+7Yeah, and sun shinings out of my ***** would work as well.
- sap959, on 04/27/2008, -0/+7woooOOOOOoooooo!
- Emnsta, on 04/27/2008, -2/+860 days?! That's a lifetime!!
- scaaven2, on 04/27/2008, -1/+7consistent capitalization for the win.
- kotn2012, on 04/27/2008, -1/+7I thought it said "Doctor Who" could cure alzheimers. ): Misleading title.
- Rapter09, on 04/27/2008, -1/+7Dear God,
If I get Alzheimers, you're a dead man.
Thanks
My heart goes out to all those effected. It's terrifying, and I hope I never have to see it happen to anyone I love, because the thought of it is bad enough. - MrCrispyChicken, on 04/27/2008, -0/+6yummy
- EricAnderton, on 04/27/2008, -0/+6Here we go - performed by none other than Orbital:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7RlIZywxNQ (beat drops at about 3:00)
And for grins, the good-'ol KLF with their brilliant rendition of the theme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_-rOZfJjY0 - koob, on 04/27/2008, -0/+5Wow just the other day I saw a Digg story of a guy who could cure Alzheimers! Wait . . .
- Motocompo, on 04/27/2008, -1/+6Yes and No to that statement. I believe that traditional medicine needs to focus more on improving natural approaches. Sure we should continue researching and curing cancer and AIDs but why can't we also find a way to make the best bowl of chicken Noodle soup for the flu as well?
- synergye, on 04/27/2008, -1/+5Thank you
- Toupee, on 04/27/2008, -0/+4You guys been watching series 4?
- TheHappyRobot, on 04/27/2008, -1/+5*Doctor* Who.
- theviceroy, on 04/28/2008, -0/+4dugg down for forgetting about the Master.
- Lynxpro, on 04/27/2008, -0/+4He's much much older than 903. That's just RTD's shoddy writing for you. He was 950'ish back when he was the 7th Doctor. The current Doctor is the 10th.
- PabloIV, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3Yeah, and we're all supposed to believe that the capitalized W was just a typo.
- Pixelante, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3It's only reasonable to think that a Gallifreyan's medical knowledge would be far superior to anything 21st Century has to offer.
- sap959, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3dugg for being a smart ass and for ripping on RTD crappy writing! :P
- thehurricaneuk, on 04/27/2008, -1/+4sorry for your loss
- moronicbajebus, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3I had to read it twice myself to realize it wasn't Doctor Who.
- jeweledmagic, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3I don't understand what he would gain by lying, shame on him for giving false hope. This is a merciless disease that affects both the patient, family and caregivers.
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