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Doesn't have to be so strange. I think we all know people who fight through their illnesses or resist going to the doctor until they are feeling really sick.
RIP Gene Hackman
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Probably thought she had a cold, not that she was going to die from a rare disease.
Given that the symptoms would seem to resemble common respiratory or flu illnesses, she may not have wanted to leave him alone to go to the doctor. Hindsight would say she could have hired someone to come look after him, but I suspect they wanted to keep the severity of his Alzheimer’s private.
He may have noticed, but the mind of an Alzheimer's/dementia victim can be like Swiss cheese. From a historical or short-term memory perspective and logical processing.
Just a quick example. My dad loved baseball. We would watch most Cubs games on TV. In his later stages of Alzheimers there were times he would just turn to me and say stuff like: "Is this a real game or practice" or "What are they trying to do?" or "What's the purpose of this?".
I guess. Obviously she didn't realize it was as bad as it was and must have hit her pretty quick at the end before she could muster a call. And Gene didn't even understand what was going on. A married couple dying a week apart with those circumstances. Horrible.
Our rat terriers loved shelling days. They were amazing dogs. The number of mice/rats they could take out in a minutes time was something to watch.
Which makes me wonder if they autopsied the dog although certainly that long without food or water is most likely cause of death. Could the dogs have been part of her exposure, either through walking them or petting them?
My dad has damn near died twice because he was too stubborn to go to the doctor.
Having experienced my Mother's dementia/Alzheimer's, up close n personal.... One moment, I was her son. The next moment, I was her taxi driver. The next moment, her dad. The next moment, her college student. The next moment, she wanted to visit her Aunt Virginia (deceased for a decade +). I could ramble on, in terms of who I "was," in my Mother's eyes. One more. She often assumed, that her husband of 63 year's, was a stranger in our home.
Nutshell, given Gene's Advanced Alzheimer state, NOTHING surprising here.
My Mother is in a much better, here off-earth-place. So is Gene and wife.
Nutshell, given Gene's Advanced Alzheimer state, NOTHING surprising here.
My Mother is in a much better, here off-earth-place. So is Gene and wife.
We’d finish shelling our two sided crib and there’d be a 100 dead rats in the lot that the dogs had killed.
Bizarre when thinking back on it decades later.
Obviously unclean and unhealthy but you weren’t in a closed environment with the droppings.
I doubt anyone did that to the dog on purpose. My guess is that Hackman put the dog in the closet either thinking that was where he was supposed to be or that he was letting him outside.
I wouldn't necessarily assume Hackman had money for extravagant in-home care, either. It's been 20 years since he worked and most people in this world spend at the level of their income while they have it, without necessarily thinking about the future when they won't.
I read an article that his net worth was about $80 million. Probably more likely his wife wanted to do as much as she could herself for privacy or other reasons.
You said "JFC don't let your animals suffer" which implies that you think they let their animals suffer.
They did say the humidity was really low so if the door was open that probably helped speed the process.
