Glen Campbell's "Not gonna miss you"

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Shann

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I don't know how to link to youtube but Glen Campbell's final recorded song is "Not gonna miss you" about his battle with Alzheimer's Disease. Its heartbreaking. My Gram went through the same thing and seeing her slowly lose herself is about the hardest thing I'm ever seen. Its about how he won't be the one suffering and won't be the one missing his loved ones because the disease robs you of this.

My Gram went through all this. First stages of just forgetfulness to worse, getting to the point where she knew that she was losing it, then over into the "not gonna miss you" phase where I wasn't her grandson any more just a nice man who came and talked with her. I do think she was reasonably happy at that stage because she didn't know what she didn't know.
 
Here you go... email me and I'll show you how do it, for some reason it's not letting me give you the exact commands here in the reply.

What a sad story, I lost an uncle to Alzheimer's disease. I saw a little of a news report they did with the family, real heartbreaker.

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Thank you!

Really sad. I had a client once with it and in a moment of clarity she said the worst part was that she knew she wasn't herself anymore, and was embarrassed by some of the things she was doing that were totally out of character.
 
I heard this via a friend last week and it is both brilliant and sad. My Godmother has it and it is difficult for her family. She keeps referring to me as my late dad (whom I resemble). It is hard trying not to hurt her feelings and 1/2 a pack of biscuits, bringing one at a time was ok but there was one humorous time she kept bringing me a beer.

There are some very hard moments when she looks for someone who has died. She is still a good driver so long as someone keeps reminding her where to go.
 
Heres a good video tribute with the song.
Alzheimer is almost always a sad thing.
I had a wonderful neighbor who was about 96 years old the last I saw her. When she ended up in the nursing home I went to visit her.
She was happy to see me and we talked quite a bit about my parents and other things for almost 20 minutes....then she stops in the middle of a sentence and looks at me and says "Now, who are you again?.....
I held it in and we talked some more memories....every once in awhile she'd ask me that question again.
This woman had a lifetime of wonderful memories to share and I mind like a steel trap before. It really hurt to see her going thru that.


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I've watched an extended interview with him, his wife and family. And listened to most of his farewell album. Yes, a sad thing to have happen to anyone. The last I heard, the family had finally put him in an assisted living center as the disease had progressed far beyond their ability to help him with. They did keep him at home longer than most families are able to.
 
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