Wear The Lilac: Alzheimers Awarness- 25th May!

[Lavender and Vanilla]

i live with my grandparents. they adopted me. my grandmother has demisei (sorry can not spell it) which is a form of Alzheimers. many people in my family have had it. it is only a matter of time before i also will have it.


on another note. there are no male avi tekteks. i am sorry, but this is not just a female desiase.

[CuteEmoSpazz]

oh. it's so nice to have something like this. i think my friend's grandpa had alzheimers. my friend would tell me of some of the funny things that would go on in the home that his grandpa was in when they would visit him. sadly he died just a little less than 2 weeks ago. i remember sitting next to him when he got a call saying that he was in the hospital. it made me feel so bad to see him in pain like that. he died just 2 days later. i hope people manage to get rid of this terrible disease. its so hard to see friends going through this kind of pain.

[gigi1232]

My grandpa has alzheimers. But once in the old peoples house he asked,"Where is Mati?" he remembered me!

[amanda_poke_dora]

hey can i get a ticket
thanks

[WaterBeast]

On the first page someone wrote that some familiar of that person died from alzheimer, you cant die from it, can you
My grandmother had alzheimer, we had to take her to a medical institution because she forgot about everything and talked nonesense, aswell as she acted nonesense, she woke up at night, naked, and went out my aparment and started ringing the bell. Worst image ive ever seen

[Flawers]

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Just sending some love to all the people who have alhemizers and their family/friends.

[malicer333]

Myap. I just changed my entire avatar. Lots and lots of purple fun! @________@ and new hair. wow. all for the sake of May 25th.

how do we enter the raffle? I just put the thing in my signature. do I just say here" I wanna join the raffle?" :/

Chibi Rosalie: Oh, and I picked 6. :/ Some of them were too...scantily clad which I could lol at but did not find suitable for the cause ya know?

[ChaosSorcerer6]

wahmbulance

[Ambassador Ashwing]

My great-grandpa had Alzheimer's. He didn't recognize any of my family eventually. I went to visit him, and gave him a picture from a coloring book I had colored for him (i was about 6 or 7..), and he said, "Thank you, young man. Here you are." And he gave me five dollars, as though he'd just bought the picture from a stranger, and not from his great-grandson. He also didn't call any of us by name, and didn't even get out of his recliner, not realizing we were visiting family. If we'd try to talk to him, he'd just stare at us blankly, sometimes he'd answer, but he would never know who we were.

[Miss Dolly Belle]

awesome surprised there's lots of lilac trees in Minnesota. In fact I have 4 in my backyard, I'll probably cut them down on May 25th and give them to everyone 3nodding

[AClDRain]

I'm truly touched by this thread. It reminds me of my grandmother's funeral. She died of diabites (sorry for my spelling) and stroke. Near the end of her death she couldn't remember most of us. At the funeral, some people from our church came...it seemed they only came for the food.. What made me even more mad was when they sang the song, "I could only imagine". The reason why it made me pissed was because they can only "imagine", they didn't know the real pain of seeing someone died, seeing them in pain. It made me think that they were mocking me, us. But reading this thread shows me how much I over reacted. That it's in my nature to object help from others when I'm depressed.
I'm sorry I got off topic. : (( I'm going to support this thread and dress up purple asap. I've put your icon on my signature, I know that it's not much but one people can make a different.<3

[Sousakusha]

hmm i should start finding some purple! it's my favorite color anyway!
I will definitely be wearing purple 3nodding

[Maria Talia Moonfang]

Thank you so much for creating this thread. Many times people ask me what Alzheimers is. So I have to explain it. I realize Cancer is terrible, but so is this diseas and word should get out to more people about how horrible it is. My Grandmother died from it back in 2007. She was supposed to go with us to her homeland, Scotland, in 2005 when she had just been diagnosed. Unfortunately she was not able to go, however, the G8 conference was occuring at the time, so windows were boarded up and whatnot. My mother and I felt that if she had gone she would have thought it was still wartime. Thank you so much for opening up this thread. And thanks for the update on when to wear lilac.

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[sleepypandie]

Thank you so much for creating this thread and raising awareness. I don't know anyone directly, but I know that my great uncle suffered from Alzheimer's for many years.