Emma Heming Willis gave an update on her family’s struggle while taking care of the ailing actor.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As someone who has a close family member that battles with dementia I feel for the Willis family. You get to watch the loved one you remember die a little bit each and every day until you start to forget how they used to be. Life is rough, don’t forget to enjoy what you have in the moment because it’ll be gone before you know it.

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      1 year ago

      This isn’t just dementia. This is frontotemporal dementia, AKA Pick’s disease. Likely he’s been suffering for years before it got bad enough to seek help. You don’t even notice it at first. It starts with personality changes over years. They become a different person before they progress to having trouble speaking. By the time he became aphasic, the person he was had likely disappeared completely. Before anyone even realized he was sick. I feel worse for his youngest children, who likely never got to meet the real person before the disease.

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      1 year ago

      Haven’t experienced it with a human family member, but my dog was like that in her last year or so of life. I know it’s not the same, but it really sucked and I did forget parts of her personality over time.