Have you seen this movie? It was a very good movie. A very sad movie. It is a movie about a couple facing Alzheimer's together. Julie Christie (Dr. Zhivago) does a fabulous job in her role as Fiona. My grandmother had Alzheimer's and I remember many of the stages that she went through. Asking me the same question that she just asked me was some of the beginning times that I remember. After I got married, she could not ever remember that I was married and who my husband was. To the end, where she could not speak at all and there was a blank look in her eyes. I miss her and I lost her so many years before she actually passed away.
On a lighter note, whenever I misspeak or forget something, my husband tells me I'm not far from Meadowlake (nursing home in movie)! Maybe we'll go together one day!
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i told you it was a good movie. i hope you sobbed like we did. ross said there was no way he would take me there- the movie provided for very interesting conversation in the house!
He says that now ;)
I saw that movie awhile ago and loved it. Bawled, of course. Both of my mom's parents are victims of Alzheimers. It is a horrible disease.
Julie Christie was up for an Oscar or Academy Award for her role. (can't remember which one.)
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