Don't Some Folk.....

[gness]

....get a raw deal in life.....

Bad enough having an elderly mother with Alzheimer's but a lady not far from me is coping with something I can't even begin to imagine....

She lost her husband to this disease when he was forty three after six years of suffering.
Her daughter, now thirty nine, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's at thirty....is in a care home and her two children.....eighteen and twelve... are being brought up by gran.....

Just so dreadfully sad, isn't it.......x

[Mamyalynne]

Some certainly seem to have more than their fair share of burdens to carry Gness.


I am amazed at the resilience and fortitude of people who cope like this but then I probably don't see them at their lowest ebb.

[hereIam]

Yes, that is very, very sad. I always think it's worse when younger people get that awful disease.

[Jackdaw33]

I must agree. At such a young age this is dreadful.

[New Judge]

And there's me moaning because I've got a dodgy knee which plays me up a tad in the cold and damp. I always vow to stop moaning about it when I hear tales such as this. And, to my shame, I never do.

[Old_Geezer]

Sad indeed. Risk factor maybe in the genes ?

[vortex]

Life can be so cruel.

[ummmm]

New Judge - just because people have it worse it doesn't mean we can't moan.

Gness - she must be a very strong lady.

[chelle7272]

Indeed :(

A woman I work with died last year of cancer, very fast onset. She was in her mid 40's with 2 teenage children. She died a year to the day that her husband died from a brain tumour. The children are being brought up by their grandparents now.

She was alovely happy woman the whole way through her illness, not sure I could be that strong...

[gness]

It seems that it is to do with a gene, OG.....and now, with all else she has had to cope with, there is the worry that the grandchildren, one or both, may be affected......
I guess there is a test that will show.....but....would I want to know at twelve years of age....or at all......I just don't know....

This really got to me today......twittering on about the mizzy weather.....til I read this......x

[Jackdaw33]

It's well over 40 years now, but I remember a young man from Durham University who developed leukaemia. At first he was upbeat and made light of it, but as time went on he became more and more ill. He was too sick to sit his finals and was awarded an aegrotat. He died two weeks later.

[pixie374]

They do. My friend has Huntingdon's in her family and one of her cousins got it at 16... it progresses much quicker when they are younger too. Very unfair.

[Ann]

Yes its so sad and humbling. As you say Gness we sit and moan about the miserable January weather and we should be really counting our blessings. :)

[marval]

That really is sad, I read stories like this and count my blessings.

[Smowball]

Terribly sad. A lady MY me who I knew slightly went to hospital just before Xmas with an asthma attack. She went into cardiac arrest and into a coma - she died last week aged just 38 with young children.

[Tilly2]

I read about this lady in our local paper, Gness. What made me so sad was that the children rarely visit their mum because they can't bear to see her how she is. How dreadful for them to 'lose' their mum at such an early age.

Yes, some people do draw the short straw.

[Islay]

It is sad but look at the other side, she had a wonderful marriage had a beautiful daughter who gave her some wonderful grandchildren.

Some people are not that blessed!

[ummmm]

Yes, Tilly, it's very hard. We shared my nans care but at the end it was just me and my aunty as the others couldn't bare to see her the way she was.

I probably would have been the same except my aunty needed me.

[murraymints]

very very sad ...

[jourdain2]

Jackdaw - elder daughter read at Durham. A year after graduating she attended the wedding of2 friends she'd met there. They'd all had a fun time as students and shared a house. He managed to walk down the aisle and died a week later. She grew up. Yes, gness, it is so, so sad, but we must cope.