it's Alzheimer's, not All-timers...

[ginna74]

All means the same to me so I don't care how people call it and that goes for other words too. But that isn't one of my things though. How people talk doesn't get to me. How people smell does and to be honest how there hair looks <ie old men who looked like they never combed their hair in their life and just woke up and went out and it is sticking strait up for example>. I want to get my brush and brush their hair!

 

[jackemail]

I do not care so much what anyone calls it. It is the living with it that is beyond description. I do not so much mean the person who is diagnoses with it but the family and caretakers.

My mother has it. I hate this disease. It has taken my mother from me and replaced her with someone that none of us know.

Once in a more lucid moment, I asked her what it felt like on her end to be so forgetful. She laughed and said not that bad because she forgets that she can not remember! My mom had an incredible sense of humor. I think that is part of what is allowing her to maintain some piece of herself through all of this!

Also the future is frightening, as statistically at least of of her children will also develop this disease. This makes you squirm and doubt yourself every time you forget anything! What is normal aging or just forgetting something and what is a precursor of horrid things to come?

Call it anything you want. Just please find a cure for it!

I am in the same sinking boat as you are in. My mom would NEVER have wanted to be this way, and the fact that she and both of her sisters have it (one has already died) scares the living you-know out of me.....not so much for my future, as for my daughter's and her kids. New meds need to be found NOW...there haven't been any new ones for quite some time.

My granddaughter posted a piece of paper on her school's "prayer wall" when she was 6....it read "Please pray for my great grandmother who has Olshimer's." Like you, I didn't care what she called the disease...at least she wanted help for her great-gran.

 

[tvguy]

I've never heard that before

Me either, until today.

 

[Rabscuttle]

As a nurse, I hear a lot of mispronounced words, including All-timers/Old-timers, dia-BEE-TEES, "high blood", heart "PLAPitations", "prostrate" disease, "unbiblical cord", "bomick"(vomit), and my personal favorite, the "Scum-ergency Room." I kid you not.

I will add multiple scurrosis to your list.

 

[minkydog]

What's wrong with that? If I say that outloud, it sounds like the right way: dī-ə-ˈbē-tēz

I think it's in the musical timing. When medical people say the word it comes out quick, as 1-and-2-and--die-a-BE-tis. When you say it the other way it comes out slower, as 1 & 2-3--die-a-BEEE-TEEEs.

Never mind.

 

[DisneyFan32WI]

My MIL pronounces the word "breakfast" ........"brekFIRST"
Anyone else hear it that way too? It drives me nuts when she says that word!

 

[momof1princess]

My MIL pronounces the word "breakfast" ........"brekFIRST"
Anyone else hear it that way too? It drives me nuts when she says that word!

i can go you one better: my DMIL, whom i love dearly, pronounces "georgia" as "georgie" and "alabama" as "alabammer". it doesn't bother me, but it drives my DFIL up the wall, lol.

 

[DebIreland]

I am in the same sinking boat as you are in. My mom would NEVER have wanted to be this way, and the fact that she and both of her sisters have it (one has already died) scares the living you-know out of me.....not so much for my future, as for my daughter's and her kids. New meds need to be found NOW...there haven't been any new ones for quite some time.

My granddaughter posted a piece of paper on her school's "prayer wall" when she was 6....it read "Please pray for my great grandmother who has Olshimer's." Like you, I didn't care what she called the disease...at least she wanted help for her great-gran.

I agree. That was a beautiful thing for your granddaughter to do.

 

[KristaTX]

I think it's in the musical timing. When medical people say the word it comes out quick, as 1-and-2-and--die-a-BE-tis. When you say it the other way it comes out slower, as 1 & 2-3--die-a-BEEE-TEEEs.

Never mind.

I'm a nurse, and I say it with four syllables and long e's: die-uh-bee-tees.
I'm not arguing with you, though. Words are said different ways in different places. I think you're in Georgia. Maybe how you're saying it is the common pronunciation there.

 

[Twende]

I am in the same sinking boat as you are in. My mom would NEVER have wanted to be this way, and the fact that she and both of her sisters have it (one has already died) scares the living you-know out of me.....not so much for my future, as for my daughter's and her kids. New meds need to be found NOW...there haven't been any new ones for quite some time.

My granddaughter posted a piece of paper on her school's "prayer wall" when she was 6....it read "Please pray for my great grandmother who has Olshimer's." Like you, I didn't care what she called the disease...at least she wanted help for her great-gran.

What a beautiful prayer request for your granddaughter to make.

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

i can go you one better: my DMIL, whom i love dearly, pronounces "georgia" as "georgie" and "alabama" as "alabammer". it doesn't bother me, but it drives my DFIL up the wall, lol.

I live in New England, and putting Rs where they don't belong, and not pronouncing them where they do, makes me nuts. Actually, after almost 40 years here, I don't notice it as much anymore, unless it's really strong.

I was watching a show...not sure where the person was from...but she was referring to her husband Bob as "Bab".

Medically, one expression that bugs me is "Took a heart attack", or as they would say in New England "Took a hot attack." Yikes.

 

[furb & dez]

Words are said different ways in different places.

This may be true, but this doesn't mean they are being said correctly.

 

[DVC-Don]

My wife says All-timers, but if someone corrects her, she gets angry. Course she gets angry if she gets corrected on anything.

 

[Hollywoodhaha]

My dad called it old-timers today. I thought of this thread. I said "Dad, it is alzheimer's, not OLD-TIMERS!" His reply? "Sorry, I forgot."

 

[stitch'sgirl]

I remember my college roommate saying she hopes she never gets those "very close veins". Still makes me laugh every time I think of it!!

 

[tinatark]

Want some for brak-fist?

My sister was just hospitalized for pancreatitis. You wouldn't believe the people who called it pancreitis!

 

[jrmasm]

My dad called it old-timers today. I thought of this thread. I said "Dad, it is alzheimer's, not OLD-TIMERS!" His reply? "Sorry, I forgot."

 

[ford family]

Trying to figure out why it's such a big deal what people call it?

In my area people call it "Old-Timer's." It's not that we're uneducated or dumb, we all know what it's really called, but it's just something that has stuck over the years. I'm a Type I diabetic and a large number of people around here call it "sugar" or "sugar diabetes." Doesn't phase me in the least what they call it.

As we are all trying to be accurate, this is the wrong word being used.
What you want is "faze".
Maybe it was just a phase you were going through?

ford family

 

[C.Ann]

I remember my college roommate saying she hopes she never gets those "very close veins". Still makes me laugh every time I think of it!!

I can go you one better than that - and I hope this is DIS appropriate.. If not, it's not intentional..

Anyone remember that movie: "The Towering Inferno" from way back when? A bunch of us ladies were sitting around having our coffee meet after we sent the kids off to school and one friend mentioned that she and her husband were going to the movies Friday night.. We asked, "Which one?"
Her reply:

"Oh, what's the name of it? I can't remember.. Joe wanted to see it.. Oh - I know!! It's "The Flaming Internal"!"

You have never seen so much coffee spit around a kitchen in your entire life! Every time we would stop laughing, there would be a slight pause and we would start all over again..

We still bust on her about that to this day.. Those were good times..

 

[DebIreland]

My wife says All-timers, but if someone corrects her, she gets angry. Course she gets angry if she gets corrected on anything.