I was not a huge fan of O’Connor. She did a lot of good things, but her deciding ruling in Bush v. Gore resulted in war crimes. I don’t hold her responsible for those war crimes, but I do hold her responsible for the spurious reasoning that got Bush into office.
That said, she was a very smart woman and dementia is the worst thing that can happen to someone smart. My father went from a professor who was invited to lecture at the Sorbonne and the author of something like 30 books to someone who could barely finish 50-piece jigsaw puzzles with help. It was devastating to see. When I found out that Robin Williams took his own life rather than live through that, I understood completely.
Thank you! I appreciate the compliment! I have the Internet equivalent of face blindness, so I never remember anyone’s username, but I’m sure you’re really cool too! :)
As far as my father, it was definitely a terrible way to go, but it only took about two years from him being just a little off for a while to a child and some people can languish that way for a decade. I’m worried I might go the same way, but he also spent his entire childhood in London during WWII, so who knows what sort of chemicals he inhaled and how that affected him later in life. Neither of his parents had dementia. Also, he was a pretty angry guy in general even before the dementia and it just made him get angrier, so he went out pretty angry and I’m not an especially angry guy (I try not to be because he was like that), so if I do get it, it won’t be as bad. There were other people in the nursing home (it was a specialty nursing home for people with dementia) who were just happy all the time too, or at least every time I was there. I guess it affects different people in different ways.
I was not a huge fan of O’Connor. She did a lot of good things, but her deciding ruling in Bush v. Gore resulted in war crimes. I don’t hold her responsible for those war crimes, but I do hold her responsible for the spurious reasoning that got Bush into office.
That said, she was a very smart woman and dementia is the worst thing that can happen to someone smart. My father went from a professor who was invited to lecture at the Sorbonne and the author of something like 30 books to someone who could barely finish 50-piece jigsaw puzzles with help. It was devastating to see. When I found out that Robin Williams took his own life rather than live through that, I understood completely.
Thank you for sharing this. I’m sorry to hear about what your father - and you and your whole family - went through.
I enjoy reading your comments throughout Lemmy. You should know: you’re really cool.
Thank you! I appreciate the compliment! I have the Internet equivalent of face blindness, so I never remember anyone’s username, but I’m sure you’re really cool too! :)
As far as my father, it was definitely a terrible way to go, but it only took about two years from him being just a little off for a while to a child and some people can languish that way for a decade. I’m worried I might go the same way, but he also spent his entire childhood in London during WWII, so who knows what sort of chemicals he inhaled and how that affected him later in life. Neither of his parents had dementia. Also, he was a pretty angry guy in general even before the dementia and it just made him get angrier, so he went out pretty angry and I’m not an especially angry guy (I try not to be because he was like that), so if I do get it, it won’t be as bad. There were other people in the nursing home (it was a specialty nursing home for people with dementia) who were just happy all the time too, or at least every time I was there. I guess it affects different people in different ways.
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