Head Honcho Posted 8 August 2007 Posted 8 August 2007 Watching Malcolm and Barbara on the box now and all I can say is that it's heartbreaking to watch and terrifying to think I could get it someday.
Bryn Posted 8 August 2007 Posted 8 August 2007 Awful to watch, truly the most depressing thing I've ever seen. Heartbreaking doesn't sum it up.
Guest Posted 8 August 2007 Posted 8 August 2007 I watched my nana deteriorate through this disease, and I'm scared that I will get the same thing, which is why I didn't watch the programme, if you get my drift.
Head Honcho Posted 9 August 2007 Author Posted 9 August 2007 I watched my nana deteriorate through this disease, and I'm scared that I will get the same thing, which is why I didn't watch the programme, if you get my drift. It was absolutely awful to watch Lisa and as Burnham said one of the most depressing things you're ever likely to see on TV. More needs to be done to help carers of not just this disease but of all diseases.
THEBIGJOHNSTEADER; Posted 9 August 2007 Posted 9 August 2007 Was this a repeat, there was a similar format program on this a few years back showing the deterioration of a man with the disease and the day to day implications on his wife. Awful
Geo V Posted 9 August 2007 Posted 9 August 2007 Ive got an uncle in his late 60s who the family are worried about bigtime as he is in the early stages of it. He went to go the local shop to get some fags and went missing for hours and was later found in nearby Enfield Town shopping centre on the floor crying as he had forgotten what he was doing there. His family are trying to laugh incidents like this off but they realise it will get far worse and are all shatting themselves. Poor sods.
Head Honcho Posted 9 August 2007 Author Posted 9 August 2007 Was this a repeat, there was a similar format program on this a few years back showing the deterioration of a man with the disease and the day to day implications on his wife. Awful The guy had Alzheimers for 15 years but died in Feb 2007. Much of his life since the onset of the disease was documented on camera so I'm guessing it's the same couple. He was 52 when he was first diagnosed yet looked 15 years later on his deathbed (which was filmed by the way) he looked 90.
Manwell Pablo Posted 9 August 2007 Posted 9 August 2007 The guy had Alzheimers for 15 years but died in Feb 2007.Much of his life since the onset of the disease was documented on camera so I'm guessing it's the same couple. He was 52 when he was first diagnosed yet looked 15 years later on his deathbed (which was filmed by the way) he looked 90. Odd, it only messes your brain up nothing else, it's not a terminal disease. I suppose the stress of having it would be very heavy and could possibly bring about a side effect such as that.
THEBIGJOHNSTEADER; Posted 9 August 2007 Posted 9 August 2007 Has anyone seen the documentary on the condition (Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progessiva) where the sufferers muscle tissue turns into bone and eventually crushes the internal organs. That scared the shit out of me. People literally just turning into a frame of twisted bone until they die, must be awful too but the chances of having the condition are something ridiculous
DB11 Posted 9 August 2007 Posted 9 August 2007 The guy had Alzheimers for 15 years but died in Feb 2007.Much of his life since the onset of the disease was documented on camera so I'm guessing it's the same couple. He was 52 when he was first diagnosed yet looked 15 years later on his deathbed (which was filmed by the way) he looked 90. No he died 3 days after filming ended.
Head Honcho Posted 9 August 2007 Author Posted 9 August 2007 No he died 3 days after filming ended. I know the actually moment of his death wasn't filmed but where the last scene was filmed was almost certainly where he died
DB11 Posted 9 August 2007 Posted 9 August 2007 He probably did die there but not when they made out he was dead by the last shot of his face.
Bryn Posted 9 August 2007 Posted 9 August 2007 Odd, it only messes your brain up nothing else, it's not a terminal disease. I suppose the stress of having it would be very heavy and could possibly bring about a side effect such as that. He was unable to swallow food and so effectively he starved to death. It was also due to his pain relief... you know where if someone is in a lot of pain, you're allowed to keep medicating them and if the amount of pain relief needed to keep them comfortable kills them that's ok.
Guest Posted 9 August 2007 Posted 9 August 2007 It was absolutely awful to watch Lisa and as Burnham said one of the most depressing things you're ever likely to see on TV.More needs to be done to help carers of not just this disease but of all diseases. I agree. My grandad looked almost as ill as my nana because of the stress and upset of it all. It's been 10½ years since she died, but he's never really got over it. Odd, it only messes your brain up nothing else, it's not a terminal disease. I suppose the stress of having it would be very heavy and could possibly bring about a side effect such as that. He was unable to swallow food and so effectively he starved to death. My nana had two strokes as well, these are what quickened the inevitable. She spent most of her time in hospital following the first one, she was unable to eat, she couldn't communicate with us or anything most of the time. Every so often, you'd see a flash of her old self in her eyes, and you knew she wanted to say something, but couldn't and she would get upset at not being able to tell us. The one time she did, she begged my sister to end it all. My sister, being a soft sap, was devastated. If it had been me, I would have done it. All my nana wanted was her dignity.
Webbo Posted 9 August 2007 Posted 9 August 2007 Watching Malcolm and Barbara on the box now and all I can say is that it's heartbreaking to watch and terrifying to think I could get it someday. Awful to watch, truly the most depressing thing I've ever seen. Heartbreaking doesn't sum it up. Then why watch it?
Head Honcho Posted 9 August 2007 Author Posted 9 August 2007 Then why watch it? Why not? I didn't say it was painful to watch just heartbreaking! Many of us have had loved ones die and to me I felt some empathy with the lady in question. Her ordeal was nothing like what my close one's have gone through but a death in the family is still painful no matter what. I have quite a comfortable and easy life but this programme to some extent made me realise that in the end it's all for nothing!
Smudge Posted 10 August 2007 Posted 10 August 2007 Why not?I didn't say it was painful to watch just heartbreaking! Many of us have had loved ones die and to me I felt some empathy with the lady in question. Her ordeal was nothing like what my close one's have gone through but a death in the family is still painful no matter what. I have quite a comfortable and easy life but this programme to some extent made me realise that in the end it's all for nothing! No it's not................we live to reproduce. The real question is why?
Guest Posted 10 August 2007 Posted 10 August 2007 No it's not................we live to reproduce. I bloody well don't! Thank you very much!
Zingari Posted 10 August 2007 Posted 10 August 2007 I bloody well don't! Thank you very much! i don't think he was propositioning you personally
Durnerz Posted 10 August 2007 Posted 10 August 2007 My Grandad had it and theres nothing more upsetting than watching a person full of life deteriorate gradually, in the later stages I couldn't bring myself to visit him, partly because I wanted to remember him how he was and not as a weak old man who didn't know where he was or who the people around him were.
Head Honcho Posted 13 August 2007 Author Posted 13 August 2007 i don't think he was propositioning you personally
Joe. Posted 13 August 2007 Posted 13 August 2007 I agree it is a horrible illness to deal with, and one that you cannot win against. My Grandad has it, and it's horrible to see what he is like now compared to what he was like a few years ago. His condition has just detirorated rapidly in the last year. I feel for anybody who has relatives who have the disease because I can only empathise with them.
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