Reply #27: I too, have dealt with Alzheimers for ten years.....

[Bennyboy]

First my Faterh in law and now my Father.

The symptoms early on were almost exactly like the ones McCain is showing. (I ahve thought about posting this very topic many times myself) "Whoops, I misspoke". More and more mistakes on simple things. Foregetting lies and telling more lies to cover the lies you told before. Forgetting simple stuff that you should have down cold (See the comments about the Alaska National Guard and Palin's kid). Getting upset when you are wrong.

Now my ex father in law gets lost in the bathroom.

My father is a crazy lunatic who doesn't remember his own neighborhood.

The one thing that all three have in common is that everyone denied it for years. Nobody wanted to go there. They both avoided being diagnosed. And they both denied having it even after diagnosis.

I think this is a legtimate question.