For those of us who’ve had families hurt by the evil monster of Alzheimer’s, perhaps there’s another glimpse of hope in a recent study just releases which you can read about here.
If you have suffered the slow loss of a husband, wife, grandparent, or whomever, as their minds begin to dim, then paranoia and fright set it, you have to rejoice at any such hopeful news. Both my father-in-law and my mother-in-law suffered through this for months before they died. My good wife and her sister were devastated as they looked helplessly on.
My beef would be this: How much is the government doing to combat this horrible thing? Are we giving enough priority to funding for research — or is there less glamour attached to Alzheimer’s than some other diseases which grab more headlines, more public sympathy, more celebrity support — hence, more money?
God willing and the money not running dry, maybe we will lick this brutal destroyer of families.
Come on, Mr. President and Congress, get behind this stuff.
But, hey, what do I know? I’m just a guy who reads the papers.
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Hey, watch it on the pig odor research. I’ve stayed in motels in rural Kansas downwind from pig farms and cattle feeder lots. Not good.
But seriously, I understand what you mean — too many federal and state dollars misdirected, that’s for sure.
Sorry, they can’t spend more researching this, they would rather spend $500,000 on a dog park, or $2 million on Pig Odor Research. If you want them to spend money researching a cure for Alzheimer’s, you will need to show that 90% of Alzheimer’s patients vote democrat. All of a sudden, it will become an alarming crisis of epic proportions that we will need to vote resources for ( that we don’t have ) tonight, in the middle of the night.
If, in January, they had decided to spend one trillion dollars researching a cure for cancer or, say, Alzheimer’s, at least we would have gotten a benefit out of the pork that was spent. As it is, our children will now have to spend a significant portion of their income during their lifetime to pay for the excesses of our Government in 2008-2009. For nothing, we got zero in return.