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<blockquote data-quote="Dirty" data-source="post: 268302" data-attributes="member: 6535"><p>My grandma went through this. It was a slow decline for about ten years. The last few she was mostly bed-ridden, couldn’t communicate at all much less remember anyone or anything. The laundry list of issues and struggles is too long to list. </p><p></p><p>A crazy thing then happened. One day, she “snapped out of it” and was sitting up in a chair, smiling, communicating, genuinely being joyful, and gave my grandpa this hope that she had been misdiagnosed. It was as if that whole slow decline had been magically erased; at least the majority of it. She was all of a sudden doing things she hadn’t done quite literally in a decade. Three days later she died of a stroke. </p><p></p><p>Have any of you who have watched someone go through the slow decline of this condition witnessed anything like this at the end? I will call it a “moment of clarity” right before death. It was amazing. The older I get the more I view it as a blessing to have our last memories of her be of a smiling happy person rather than the struggling, almost empty body and mind we had watched deteriorate up to that point. It was really odd and amazing to say the least.</p><p></p><p>The scientific term for this is “terminal lucidity”. It is something I wouldn’t have believed possible if I hadn’t witnessed it myself and it is apparently associated with the end stage of some cases of psychological and neurological Diseases such as Alzheimer’s.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dirty, post: 268302, member: 6535"] My grandma went through this. It was a slow decline for about ten years. The last few she was mostly bed-ridden, couldn’t communicate at all much less remember anyone or anything. The laundry list of issues and struggles is too long to list. A crazy thing then happened. One day, she “snapped out of it” and was sitting up in a chair, smiling, communicating, genuinely being joyful, and gave my grandpa this hope that she had been misdiagnosed. It was as if that whole slow decline had been magically erased; at least the majority of it. She was all of a sudden doing things she hadn’t done quite literally in a decade. Three days later she died of a stroke. Have any of you who have watched someone go through the slow decline of this condition witnessed anything like this at the end? I will call it a “moment of clarity” right before death. It was amazing. The older I get the more I view it as a blessing to have our last memories of her be of a smiling happy person rather than the struggling, almost empty body and mind we had watched deteriorate up to that point. It was really odd and amazing to say the least. The scientific term for this is “terminal lucidity”. It is something I wouldn’t have believed possible if I hadn’t witnessed it myself and it is apparently associated with the end stage of some cases of psychological and neurological Diseases such as Alzheimer’s. [/QUOTE]
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