My mom got diagnosed with early onset alzheimer’s back in 2009 when she was in her early 40s and she lost her mind a couple months after, but she still lives to this day only it’s not her anymore if that makes sense. I hear lots of people say they lost their loved ones to alzheimer’s and it kills me that my mom can’t get the same fate because (I’m gonna get alot of hate for this) death is far more humane than what she’s going through at the moment.
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Basically your brain forgets how to breathe or how to make your heart beat. Alzheimer’s slowly kills neurons typically starting with the more complex pathways memories takes. But eventually it will damage the larger pathways the brain uses for all the automatic functions of the human body.
Though, people often refer to “losing their loved one to Alzheimer’s” as the day they realized they didn’t recognize their loved one anymore; even though they were still living.
I am sorry for what you’re going through and can’t even imagine the pain you feel.
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