Thanks, Vortex. I've got one relative who died of it, two more in advanced stages, and one who might be in the early stages. (Well, OK, two of those four aren't technically relatives, but they're either married into the family or such close family friends that they might as well be family.) It's just tragic and terrifying to watch.
My whole life just flashed before my eyes! I gotta get me a life!
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
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Hil R. - Apr 10, 2009 4:49:30 pm PDT #6397 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
sarameg - Apr 10, 2009 4:57:46 pm PDT #6398 of 30000
I've had standard dementia in my family, but early onset alz in a close family friend which has been difficult to say the least. It sucks and its heartbreaking and awful. I'm sorry you have to go through it too.
Laura - Apr 10, 2009 5:08:12 pm PDT #6399 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
I'm sorry, Hil. It is horribly difficult for the loved ones.
sj - Apr 10, 2009 5:12:17 pm PDT #6400 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
{{{Hil}}} Alzheimer's is so difficult and heartbreaking. I'm sorry.
There was just a tribute to Adenhart, the baseball player that was killed the other day in a hit and run with two of his friends, before the start of the A's/Red Sox game. So sad.
Steph L. - Apr 10, 2009 5:36:35 pm PDT #6401 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I'm not convinced there's a direct correlation between advocating health (and I have a hard time seeing why anybody would think that's a bad idea)
Advocating behaviors that lead to good health is not the same thing as setting up health/healthy behavior as a *virtue.* Making it a virtue creates a false dichotomy where one set of behavior makes you a "good" person, and another set makes you a "bad" person, when in fact the behavior is entirely morally neutral.
You may think I'm arguing semantics, but "virtue" has a very specific meaning, and that matters.
Also, I fail to see how "unhealthy" behaviors that impact only the individual engaging in them affect society.
Obviously secondhand smoke isn't in the same category, because smoking is a behavior that affects the people around the smoker. But one person's consumption of Twinkies doesn't affect society.
Polter-Cow - Apr 10, 2009 5:43:00 pm PDT #6402 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It means fewer Twinkies for everyone else.
(I kid, I kid.)
Steph L. - Apr 10, 2009 5:55:01 pm PDT #6403 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
P-C, you may have my lifetime allotment of Twinkies. (I never got the Twinkie love. Ho-Hos, on the other hand....)
Fay - Apr 10, 2009 5:57:22 pm PDT #6404 of 30000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
It means fewer Twinkies for everyone else.
Thank God! Because Twinkies really, truly, ming. They're one of those terrifying foods that clearly contain no actual food at all, and will still be here along with the cockroaches when everything else on the planet is dust.
...sorry, tangent. But I agree with Tep about the fact that setting up the whole moral paradigm of virtue/sin pertaining to cookies etc is spectacularly unhelpful.
Steph L. - Apr 10, 2009 5:59:33 pm PDT #6405 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Because Twinkies really, truly, ming.
Yet again, Fay and I are one. Which means I am HOTT.
P.M. Marc - Apr 10, 2009 5:59:52 pm PDT #6406 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I want some Sinful Cookies right now.
But I should have beer and pizza first.