FD saw his oncologist today and his lymphoma is under control. All liver functions are in line. This ordinarily would be such good news we'd celebrate and go on our annual trip to his alma mater's football games. Wow what a difference this year is. Of course I'm glad that he got the good report but ------ Oh yeah, I remember FD is gone and someone else lives in his skin. He is pleased, of course, but still has so much trouble remembering is this January or March???? What, of course it is September you remember the football games are on TV now it couldn't be Jan. or March. His favorite time of year is football season but he can't keep up with the games now. Any replay of a play confuses him he thinks it is real time and he loses track of the score. It is hard to watch this decline. But -- at least the cancer is not active! (And I truly am thankful for that).
It is really nice to hear the good report and I am sure that you are relieved! I hope that one day they will be able to arrest dementia like they can some cancers and even cure it like they do some cancers. Wouldn't that be nice. I don't think it will be in time for my DH but as long as it happens I would be glad.
I remember that Cancer was always 100% fatal back in the 1950s. They tried so hard to cure it for so many years. Turns out it still is just as fatal as ever in the later stages. "Cures" have only come through early detection. Ya gotta find it before it becomes untreatable.
Then I read where people are against early screening for AD (such as AFA's Natl Memory Screening day) because they think it is somehow 'wrong' to detect/identify a disease that is incurable.
Any 'cure' for Alz will never happen once the symptoms have manifested themselves. Just like heart disease and cancer and diabetes and every other chronic illness we need a mechanism to detect it long before the real damage has been done. The problem is that it is so difficult to look inside a living brain.