Still Alice Into Alzheimer's Disease

Alice’s descent into Alzheimer’s disease appear without warning. In the beginning, slight memory loss plagued her, but she was fully capable of functioning like a normal human being. Little slips in her memory would come and go like the wind; her first warning sign appeared when she simply forgot a certain word in a meeting. The slope began with just little things being forgotten. Her habitual rituals liking jogging were impacted; Alice was off jogging yet she forget where she was despite the fact that she had been around the campus many times before the incident. Small commands faded from her short term memory; she forgot to remember to bring a relative with her to her doctor. As a final note of evidence, Alice forgot meeting her son’s girlfriend …show more content…
The process of the disease is painted in a far more gruesome light than most people anticipate. I did not realize to what extent that the disease just keeps taking away. People normally do not take into consideration how the family reacts. In Still Alice, the audience sees a strong husband slowly chip away, a frequently verbally assaulted and invaded daughter that is trying her best to assist, and two other children who help when they are around but distance themselves from the afflicted. When you think of Alzheimer’s disease, you really only consider the patient and their main care giver, but the audience now has a greater understanding of the bigger …show more content…
My grandfather it it very bad. I have heard stories of him accidentally flashing people when forgetting to pull his pants up and forgetting his non immediate family member's names, but he was capable of remembering things involving his favorite past experience. My dad told me he would be able to identify a specific location in detail but be completely clueless about the rest of the town around him. My grandfather passed when I was only five, so what I know is only stories, but my uncle definitely has apparent memory issues. My uncle has had five brain tumors and miraculously lived, so I hope that the two of them have it by coincidence and that the dementia is not hereditary. My uncle, Melvin, forgets things literally all the time. He has gotten lost driving, forgotten how to get inside his own house before, and misses minute details all the time. His immediate family and him get along quite horribly, so it is up to my father, grandmother, and I to keep tabs on him. It grows a bit difficult in the middle of the week when my grandmother and I are away from him and my father has to work. Melvin has been known to have a bit of a short temper and short attention span in the past along with horrible vision and sometimes fainting. One of the scariest times was when he fainted outside his house, stayed there for hours, and then came over the next day without any recollection of it. My father and I only learned of this when one of