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Dec. 12th, 2007 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellestraI've just learned Terry Pratchett has been diagnosed with are form of early onset Alzheimer's disease.
He takes it much better then I would. I would panic. There's not many things as scary as neurodegerative disease. As it eats your mind you loose yourself till there's nothing left. For years I was worried I could have Multiple Sclerosis. Now I'm worried about Parkinson's because I'm a non-smoker who doesn't like coffee or alcohol (I know, I know - I deserve it).
Somehow I believed that Discworld will go on forever. Pratchett's special deal with Death. Untouchable.
I really hope all this research to find a cure, or at least to stop the progression of the Alzheimer's will get results.
I hope we'll read many more books by Terry Pratchett.
He takes it much better then I would. I would panic. There's not many things as scary as neurodegerative disease. As it eats your mind you loose yourself till there's nothing left. For years I was worried I could have Multiple Sclerosis. Now I'm worried about Parkinson's because I'm a non-smoker who doesn't like coffee or alcohol (I know, I know - I deserve it).
Somehow I believed that Discworld will go on forever. Pratchett's special deal with Death. Untouchable.
I really hope all this research to find a cure, or at least to stop the progression of the Alzheimer's will get results.
I hope we'll read many more books by Terry Pratchett.
