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Alzheimer


Taking care of an elderly person can be a difficult thing to, do especially when they have a disease called 's. According to the Encarta Encyclopedia, "'s is a disease marked by progressive loss of mental capacity." This is the exact problem that the Grandfather, Michael McMahon, has in the story Grand Opening. It is not easy living with someone who has 's. The novel shows many examples of how hard it is to live with someone with the disease and all of the extra care you have to put forth.
A person who has 's has a major problem remembering things. When the family was moving from Minneapolis to the small town of Plum, the Grandfather was very confused. During the entire trip they had ...

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no one could believe. He just awoke form his nap when he heard a noise that was very familiar to him. It was the sound of a train whistle. He ran running to the window and saw the smoke from a train headed toward town. A memory was triggered in his head and he went running from the house toward the train. While running to the train, he started to think back to when he used to work on the train. He was tried to remember all of the people he knew that would be working on this line. This is a perfect example of a person that has 's. They have flash backs and think that they are back in the past, instead of being in the present.
When he finally caught up to the train, he climbed on the locomotive and introduced himself to the engineer. He was immediately escorted off of the locomotive. He then walked to the back of the train and climbed aboard the caboose, climbed up to the brakeman's high seat and fell asleep, only to awake to the whistle of the train. He tried to collect ...

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Added: 9/7/2006 10:29:16 AM
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