Comments by "" (@AdamBladeTaylor) on "Huge Breakthroughs In A Potential Alzheimer's Vaccine" video.

  1. My dad suffered from dementia in his final years, and it was devastating. My wife and I were caring for him at the house. I took care of all the banking and daily essentials, as he became less and less able to handle things himself. It was a hell of a chore trying to make sense of all the documents and such he had, as you could see the progression in his filing where things went from super organized to just chaos. Digging through multiple filing cabinets trying to find all the relevant documentation for bills and such. It got to the point where he would forget to eat. Forget what day it was. There were even times when he would look at me and have absolutely no idea who I was. Eventually we had to place him in a home because we just couldn't keep an eye on him 24/7 as he needed. And it was too dangerous to leave him unsupervised. There were times when I'd found that he'd turned on the oven and just left it (sometimes putting some random object in there in his confusion). And when he was at the home, I kept having to remind him that he lived there now, and I was just visiting him, he wasn't coming home with me. And he always looked so confused. It killed me to see him like that. My dad was always a rock. He was ex-British Navy. He was a diver, who used to free dive down to disarm mines or be one of those first insertion divers who'd swim up to a beach and take out guards and spotters before the main forces could move in. He was always my hero, and a real badass (but caring and loving person). And in his final days, he was just an empty shell. Couldn't dress himself, couldn't feed himself, couldn't even remember his own name. I was devastated when he finally passed, but in some ways, his suffering and constant terror and confusion was finally over. So I have to be thankful for that. I wish that a medication like this could have been available years ago. But I'm happy they're working on it. I don't want anyone to have to suffer seeing a loved one crumble like I did.
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