Hits close to home if you’ve had family members with that disease. 
Little sawdust in my eye after watching the Chevy Christmas commercial
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Dealing with a minty-five year-old mother who has forgot her grands and the great-grandchildren. I cried. Too real for me.
Kudos to Chevy marketing department. If they produced more ads like this maybe people wouldn't be so quick to hit the fast forward button.
Seeing my grandfather who I saw almost every day just fade away makes this commercial really hit close to home.
Loved it, but could have been one for the ages if they let grandma drive with a hint of like a rock in the background…
edited to say 2 of my 4 grandparents ended up like this. Hit me hard too!
edited to say 2 of my 4 grandparents ended up like this. Hit me hard too!
Lost an uncle to it last year. Watching somebody go down from that and cancer two of the most gut wrenching things you can do.
John Denver was a national treasure. Soon as I heard it I was thinking perfect song choice.
I am lucky not to have this in the family’s history. My wife does with her grandmother having it losing her life to and having really bad experience.
She just crossed 60. So it’s out there. We both know it but we just don’t talk too much about it and hope it stays out there.
She just crossed 60. So it’s out there. We both know it but we just don’t talk too much about it and hope it stays out there.
very refreshing in an endless spew of woke BS - maybe the pendulum will swing back wide
I read too quickly and saw "Chevy" and "Christmas" and watched expecting an old Clark Griswold to appear.
My mom, 82 now has it. Still remembers most close friends and relatives and the old stuff but forgets some conversations 10 minutes after we have them. Physically she's great for 82, but late in the afternoons mentally she isn't good though. Covid and isolation was really bad on her and others like her too. This commercial, man, hits hard....
Mom and Dad have Dementia. Took mom to Drs appointment yesterday. She told me how to get to drs office (I had never been there) but didn’t know day or month or year. She called me dads name.
Dad is almost as bad. He leaves stove/oven on on a regular basis. Can’t focus on anything he’s doing. Yesterday morning he spilled coffee, got up to get paper towel, came back with new cup of coffee and asked what’s wet all over floor.
I live 3 hrs away and am the only child. Want to be closer, but interest rates makes that not feasible at the moment. They can’t keep staying by themselves that’s for sure. Looking at assisted living facilities, but damn they are incredibly expensive. Lots of tough decisions to make in my near future.
Dad is almost as bad. He leaves stove/oven on on a regular basis. Can’t focus on anything he’s doing. Yesterday morning he spilled coffee, got up to get paper towel, came back with new cup of coffee and asked what’s wet all over floor.
I live 3 hrs away and am the only child. Want to be closer, but interest rates makes that not feasible at the moment. They can’t keep staying by themselves that’s for sure. Looking at assisted living facilities, but damn they are incredibly expensive. Lots of tough decisions to make in my near future.
Hits close to home if you’ve had family members with that disease.
It’s a touching commercial as my Grandfather went through that before he passed from aggressive Melanoma of the brain after having surgery 2 times to remove it then it came back and he had to fight it with radiation and chemotherapy he developed amnesia/dementia (sorry don’t know exactly which word to use in his case) towards the end and it was so hard to see the strongest man I’ve ever known go down like that and through that . My Grandparents raised me from age 9 and a half up. And were a huge huge part of my childhood before my sister and father died and they got custody of me too.
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Can someone tell me how to delete a post as I meant for that to be a General reply to the thread, not necessary to the poster. I just need to know how anyways if there’s a way?
Man...hits hard. I'm in the middle of restoring my dad's old truck right now. People constantly telling me to sell it but they just don't understand.
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