Throughout our turmoil I knew Mum had donated her brain for dementia research - this based on her interest in research through her laboratory work & herbalism over many many years - and this has now been accomplished; we'll get reports within next 12 months.
However, I said to the Research Doctors that I considered my mother would NOT have developed "dementia" if she hadn't taken the medications (statins, aspirin etc.) in attempts to prevent strokes....she would have died many years earlier but without the horrors she later succumbed to.
Thus, I argued, that it was the medications that "caused" her dementia.
To my amazement, they agreed. Said they were well aware that without sophisticated medications most people wouldn't develop dementia (yet would die earlier.)
My father died aged 75 from a massive brain haemorrage but retained his persona, his dignity, he was as handsome & articulate on his deathbed as he'd always been - my mother lived 10 years longer than him until she was 86 - but her last 10 years were spent with "dementia", with increasing fraility and pain and utter loss of dignity & respect. Was her extended time really worth her losing her self, her dignity?
However, I said to the Research Doctors that I considered my mother would NOT have developed "dementia" if she hadn't taken the medications (statins, aspirin etc.) in attempts to prevent strokes....she would have died many years earlier but without the horrors she later succumbed to.
Thus, I argued, that it was the medications that "caused" her dementia.
To my amazement, they agreed. Said they were well aware that without sophisticated medications most people wouldn't develop dementia (yet would die earlier.)
My father died aged 75 from a massive brain haemorrage but retained his persona, his dignity, he was as handsome & articulate on his deathbed as he'd always been - my mother lived 10 years longer than him until she was 86 - but her last 10 years were spent with "dementia", with increasing fraility and pain and utter loss of dignity & respect. Was her extended time really worth her losing her self, her dignity?