I love Corrie, but it is too upsetting at the moment............

[puff]

The slow demise of Mike (generally an unsympathetic character) is making me too .

I know it's only telly

lol
Surprised to see you here.
Is it.....(searches in nooks and crannies of the mind) Baldwin??
He must be about 109 now??

Do you think theyre handling it well puff?

Have missed corrie lately - whats happening?

moondog, however I am intimately acquainted with someone who was once heavily involved in Coronation Street

welshboris - I'm not sure, I know it's really affecting me though and soaps rarely move me!

I know, its a touchy subject and heartbreaking

Ive never had any experience, but for those who do I hope corrie handle it carefully

Someone fill me in please!

What's up with him then??

He has alzheimer's in the storyline

can't watch it myself, had the live show with my grandmother and it's horrid.

Eve

A fairly distant relative has it, but I don't see her v often and we are not close. Must be vv hard when it's your nearest and dearest.

Ah..
Dh's father has just died of (two weeks ago) it after 6 long and horrid years of decline which ended with him weighing 8 stone (he was 6 2") on a water bed,completely and utterly incapacitated in every way.

Dreadful

md

I used to be hooked on Corrie (many years ago) and \link{http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv_and_radio/story/0,,1730257,00.html\this review by Nancy Banks-Smith} made me really , esp the bit about Deirdre.

I have stopped watching as my Grandma is a very severe sufferer of alzheimers. I say my Grandma, but it isnt. My Grandma went about 10 years ago but we go and visit the woman who looks a bit like her but she cant talk or feed herself :( Horrible, horrible disease. :(

she lived in holland, knew her whole life she'd get it as it runs in family. grandfather hid it from us until they came on holiday which tipped her over the edge. she thought people were chasing her, trying to hurt her and i was the only one who she'd let near her (was 11 at the time). we were staying in a very posh country house and she was running around the grounds trying to escape 'them'. she snapped out of it later that day and realised what was happening. never seen a human being so scared in my life.

when my grandfather died 5 years later she didn't know who's funeral she was at, thought it was her dads and she hadn't recognised my dad in three years (only time i saw him cry in my life was when he told me she didn't know who he was)

the worst part of it all though was at my gf funeral she looked at me with that look you get when someones face is familiar, but you can't quite place them. part of her was still in there, lost.

my dad is already getting it at 50 and i almost certainly have the gene, my daughter will have to see us the same way

sorry for long post, don't talk about it alot as it's too painful for my dad and my mom doesn't really understand how it feels when it's your own future your looking at.

Altzhiemers is a horrible, horrible thing. My nan had it and was living with us when I was a teenager, and I am ashamed to say I didn't handle it very well. She used to wander into my room and ask me if I was a nurse, and she would wake up screaming, and we'd rush into her room and she's be saying 'Go away, leave me alone, I am just an old lady' to imaginary people who seemed to be attacking her. It was really upsetting. Eventually, it became too much for my mum to deal with and she went to stay at a nursing home, coming home every weekend and for special occassions. One Christmas, we had spent all day with her, opening presents, eating lunch together, playing games etc., and in the car on the way back to the home she said 'It'll soon be Christmas'. Now, my friends dad has got it, who I have known since childhood, and it is really sad to witness. So far, I think Corrie have handled it sympathetically.

I think he is going to die soon isn't he? I heard he has a heart attack and dies on the cobbles.

Having not lived or seen this dreadful illness close to, I've felt that Corrie is portraying it 'too' realistically. However, if it helps people understand more, maybe that's not a bad thing.