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Alzheimer's Claims Painter's Memories.... - 5/27/2009 3:53:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		Alzheimer's Claims Painter's Memories, Not Art

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RE: Alzheimer's Claims Painter's Memories.... - 5/27/2009 4:31:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		Touching story. Our art impulse is stronger than our consciousness.

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RE: Alzheimer's Claims Painter's Memories.... - 6/1/2009 8:17:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		My cousin Bobby has Alzheimer's also. He is only in his mid-fifties & declined rapidly over the past 5 or so years. I often wonder how he is doing. I'd love to see him still creating. He was a lifetime artist working as a graphic artist up until a few years ago. He did a charcoal portrait of me in my teens that I still have. He was semi-successful ... exhibiting in NY many times & he did a massive job once for the New York Aquarium. His 10-foot high fish paintings were stunning in their luminicity. It took a year to do about a dozen of them. It really sucks that he has this disease.

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RE: Alzheimer's Claims Painter's Memories.... - 6/29/2009 11:58:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		My mother had Alzheimer's,i was her caregive for the last 12 years.She did'nt paint but she made pictures with a needlepunch,type thing,with crochet thread,she made a peacock bedspread about 20 yrs. ago that was beautiful.i had to take it from her finaly,she would make her fingers bleed.This is a horrid disease,for the last few hrs. she tought I was her mom off and on.the good days grew less and less,she died last nov.I only hope they find a cure or at lest better treatments soon,so less have to suffer.

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RE: Alzheimer's Claims Painter's Memories.... - 6/30/2009 12:19:19 AM   
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My mother is in the beginning phase of alzheimer's. She came out to go shopping with me a few days ago with a different style shoe on each foot and is unable to remember the layout of the small yard surrounding our house. She still has several years of lucid time left though I think.

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RE: Alzheimer's Claims Painter's Memories.... - 6/30/2009 5:26:33 AM   
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Status: offline 		I am sorry about your Mom, Heide.

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RE: Alzheimer's Claims Painter's Memories.... - 6/30/2009 12:23:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		my mom was very artistic and was going to paint once she retired but she got parkinsons and never got to. This is the best time we have ever had together. It is a relief to me that we are having this kind of getting to know each other time before that eventuality.

I am afraid I will get it - my grandmother also had alzheimer's.

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