Sean Connery has Alzheimer’s disease

Adamantium · 26-08-2013 12:32AM #1

According to his best friend Michael Caine:

Sean Connery, who celebrated his 83rd birthday on Sunday, is reportedly badly stricken by the illness to the point that he doesn’t know where he is or what he is talking about.

Michael Caine told German paper ‘Bild’ that “we should really be concerned”.

Reportedly, Connery carries his wife’s phone number in his pocket at all times. Should he get lost, which he reportedly does more frequently, those offering him assistance can call the number and tell Micheline Roquebrune (77) where he is, pick him up and take him home.

http://www.nodeju.com/12198/actor-sean-connery-plagued-alzheimers.html

I almost recoiled from my screen in horror when i read the link. So sad to think a man of such figure, icon and strength sucuumb to this.

I wonder if this is the real reason he has been out of the limelight and acting for so long.

Picture from earlier April this year. He truly looks utterly lost. So sad... F**k

http://i.imgur.com/tlehHvw.jpg

whirlpool · 26-08-2013 12:35AM

That's sad.

At the same time... an 83 year old man having Alzheimers isn't exactly shocking.

pharmaton · 26-08-2013 12:36AM

lkionm · 26-08-2013 12:37AM

The names bond.....

Are those my feet?

MightyMighty737 · 26-08-2013 12:37AM

That's awful. Poor guy. Although it'll be equally as hard for his family, watching his mind shut down. I wish them all the best.

endacl · 26-08-2013 12:38AM

lkionm wrote: »

The names bond.....

Are those my feet?

Bad taste dude.

I laughed a little, and immediately felt bad. Your fault.

jaffacakesyum · 26-08-2013 12:39AM

That's sad

Sean Connery is a fantastic actor. As a person, I think he's a knob. But I wouldn't wish Alzheimer's on my worst enemy.

KKkitty · 26-08-2013 12:40AM

Poor man. Such a horrible affliction to have

bluefinger · 26-08-2013 12:42AM

hardly appropriate for AH?

lkionm · 26-08-2013 12:42AM

endacl wrote: »

Bad taste dude.
I laughed a little, and immediately felt bad. Your fault.

Your face tastes bad. I wasn't being a knob though just incase someone reports it.

Fantastic bond. Would have made a pretty cool batman as well.

Pity about league of extraordinary gentlemen. He hasn't acted since that movie.

Adamantium · 26-08-2013 12:42AM

endacl wrote: »

Bad taste dude.
I laughed a little, and immediately felt bad. Your fault.

Not even the maker of this thread is immune

lkionm · 26-08-2013 12:44AM

bluefinger wrote: »

hardly appropriate for AH?

Why? I cant find the Alzheimer's forum.

Christ, that sounds bad. Imma gonna stop now.

Esoteric_ · 26-08-2013 12:46AM

Horrible way to die.

I lost my grandad to vascular dementia just a month ago (dementia is extremely close to Alzheimer's).

Words can't describe what it's like to see the person you once knew fade away, never knowing who you are or why you're speaking to them, unable to eat, dress, shower, bathe, or walk.

I used to take the píss and make Alzheimer's jokes, until I experienced somebody who I loved more than words can describe succumb to the disease.

The worst part is the fear you can see in the person's face. The fear from not knowing who anybody is, the paranoia and fear when they think somebody is trying to hurt them, the fear when they get lost (in the earlier stages) and can't find their way home.

I feel so sorry for him and his family.

Adamantium · 26-08-2013 12:47AM

lkionm wrote: »

Why? I cant find the Alzheimer's forum.

Christ, that sounds bad. Imma gonna stop now.

Lets just say for both our sakes, I would advise you to... tread... lightly....

Muise... · 26-08-2013 12:49AM

sho shad

KKkitty · 26-08-2013 12:51AM

2013 and still no cure for things like this. I can't imagine what the road ahead will be like for his family at all.

cena · 26-08-2013 12:51AM

I feel sorry for his family. Hard times ahead for them.

My 62 old dad has it. It gets harder to see him as time goes by

lkionm · 26-08-2013 12:52AM

Adamantium wrote: »

Lets just say for both our sakes, I would advise you to... tread... lightly....

If that's true, if you don't know the quote maybe your best course of action is watch it again.

P_1 · 26-08-2013 12:53AM

Such a shame, I remember pretty much this time last year how he and Alex Ferguson were on the telly having a blast at the tennis in New York.

krudler · 26-08-2013 12:54AM

lkionm wrote: »

Why? I cant find the Alzheimer's forum.

Christ, that sounds bad. Imma gonna stop now.

I laughed at this, damn you.

Horrible thing for anyone to get though

timthumbni · 26-08-2013 01:09AM

Esoteric_ wrote: »

Horrible way to die.

I lost my grandad to vascular dementia just a month ago (dementia is extremely close to Alzheimer's).

Words can't describe what it's like to see the person you once knew fade away, never knowing who you are or why you're speaking to them, unable to eat, dress, shower, bathe, or walk.

I used to take the píss and make Alzheimer's jokes, until I experienced somebody who I loved more than words can describe succumb to the disease.

The worst part is the fear you can see in the person's face. The fear from not knowing who anybody is, the paranoia and fear when they think somebody is trying to hurt them, the fear when they get lost (in the earlier stages) and can't find their way home.

I feel so sorry for him and his family.

The fear in their face. That's exactly how I see it in someone very close to me. It's like they are in an unending bad trip where they are in an alternate reality where everything is scaring them, where they don't recognise their helpers or those who care about them.

I'm not religious but I pray I never get dementia/altzheimers.

scudzilla · 26-08-2013 01:11AM

jaffacakesyum wrote: »

That's sad Sean Connery is a fantastic actor. As a person, I think he's a knob. But I wouldn't wish Alzheimer's on my worst enemy.

i would

Esoteric_ · 26-08-2013 01:12AM

timthumbni wrote: »

The fear in their face. That's exactly how I see it in someone very close to me. It's like they are in an unending bad trip where they are in an alternate reality where everything is scaring them, where they don't recognise their helpers or those who care about them.

I'm not religious but I pray I never get dementia/altzheimers.

That's exactly how it is.

I take comfort in the fact that about a month before he died, for the first time in 4 years, my grandad called me by my name. It was his only moment of lucidity for about 2 years, so it's a lovely memory for me.

The fear in their faces is definitely the worst part of it all, though.

Esoteric_ · 26-08-2013 01:12AM

scudzilla wrote: »

i would

That's disgusting.

lkionm · 26-08-2013 01:14AM

scudzilla wrote: »

i would

Jaysus lad. There is a line. Most of the time I can't see it, but you are on the horizon

MissyFit · 26-08-2013 01:15AM

Well I guess he can forget about playing Bond again

Frito · 26-08-2013 01:18AM

Seeing the distress early on in the illness is awful too, when the person knows something is not right, is aware of their diagnosis and then hit by the insight that it will only get worse.
Having to explain to the family, often over and over, that the moment of lucidity their loved one had does not mean the disease is regressing. Hate that.

cena · 26-08-2013 01:20AM

Frito wrote: »

Seeing the distress early on in the illness is awful too, when the person knows something is not right, is aware of their diagnosis and then hit by the insight that it will only get worse.
Having to explain to the family, often over and over, that the moment of lucidity their loved one had does not mean the disease is regressing. Hate that.

That was a bad day when we all sat down with a few people from the home and my dad trying to explain to us that he wasn't well at all

timthumbni · 26-08-2013 01:21AM

Esoteric_ wrote: »

That's exactly how it is.

I take comfort in the fact that about a month before he died, for the first time in 4 years, my grandad called me by my name. It was his only moment of lucidity for about 2 years, so it's a lovely memory for me.

The fear in their faces is definitely the worst part of it all, though.

I pray for the quick departure of my loved one. It is no life to have what they go through. The eyes have lost all emotions aside from one. And that is pure unadulterated horror and fear.

They say Alzheimer's is actually better than vascular dementia as they can go off in their own world a wee bit. My loved one has vascular and never seems to have good moments. It's almost as horrible for the family to see it happening.

Adamantium · 26-08-2013 01:26AM

I'm generalising here but hear me out... Sometimes I wonder if the Irish sense of humor to play down/ mask suffering isn't some sort of cultural insecurity regarding matters of importance like illness, mental health and matters of life and death, you know like adults.

We've had somebody talk quite eloquently about how there parent descended into the hell that this disease is, and then in their online presence we're then wishing it on our worst enemies and joking about it to the nth degree.

There was a thousand other threads you could have done it in lads; but you HAD to do in this one!

scudzilla · 26-08-2013 01:26AM

scudzilla wrote: »

i would

Esoteric_ wrote: »

That's disgusting.

lkionm wrote: »

Jaysus lad. There is a line. Most of the time I can't see it, but you are on the horizon

before ya go judging and getting all self righteous maybe have a think why i would say that, why i would wish that terrible disease on somebody who has time and time again screwed over my family

Sean Connery has Alzheimer’s disease

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