There has been more and more talk lately about Donald Trump having Alzheimer’s or some other form of Dementia. From what I have seen and heard, I believe it is true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m a son and grandson who watched a first grandmother and then a father spiral down the Dementia\/Alzheimer’s drain. This isn’t a disease family that comes on all at once like the flu, it’s gradual, unpredictable, and initially intermittent. That’s one of the main things they don’t tell you in the list of Ten Early Signs<\/a>. Yes, I’ve written about Alzheimer’s before<\/a> on this blog. I’ve written about Trump and the lives he has ruined<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While I do, in this current decade of my career, develop embedded systems for medical devices, I’m not a licensed medical practitioner. If you get an injection or have an IV bag hung there is a north of 80% chance the bag, line, and\/or syringe were tested with one of the devices I helped create. When you get wheeled into a hospital and hooked up to a patient monitor there is a very high probability it is one with my software in it simply because that manufacturer controlled something like 80% of the market, but they have multiple models and I only helped create one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No, I’m not speaking to you as a medical professional or even an embedded systems developer. Today I speak to you as the grandson who repeatedly went to the nursing home to visit his grandmother as she disappeared memory by memory. One who also witnessed the other Alzheimer’s\/Dementia patients there, and how they behaved. As a son who went every Wednesday and Sunday to visit his father during his six years in a nursing home for many of those years. One who made friends with others at life’s twilight residing there. The staff started calling the group my crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I feel the need to tell you because most every one of you abandoned your “loved ones” at such places. Not only did I go twice per week so my mother could get a break from going every day, we went on Thanksgiving for the meal. On Christmas we took all our presents to his room so he could participate in the Christmas experience. I can count on one hand the number of families who were there for those holidays. Counting the number of families who came to visit at all wouldn’t require both hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You didn’t see this because you chose not to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I see Trump at the tipping point for Alzheimer’s. That point where the screw-ups can’t be covered up. After this point it is a very debilitating disease. The body may live for years, but that which made it a person you cared about disappears like an object in a magic act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can wipe your ass with those cognitive tests. I’m sure Trump lied about taking one or he had a doctor with the same level of ethics as the one who diagnosed him with bone spurs to get out of The Draft<\/a>. Alzheimer’s is an intermittent disease. My father passed his cognitive tests with his doctor, yet Dementia did him in. I had set him up with a computer and he had been checking email using Thunderbird for years<\/em>. One day he asked me something and I told him I had emailed it to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Okay, how do I get it?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “You check your email.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “How do I do that?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m not making this up. It was after that we arranged for the cognitive test which he passed. He only checked email a few times after that on his own. I had to help him otherwise. Be sitting there and tell him what to click on to open messages and how to reply. Each time for each message.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhere Do I Speak From?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Cognitive Tests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n