"With Alzheimer's people, there's no such thing as having a day which is like another day. Every day is separate....it's as if every day you have never seen anything before like what you're seeing right now."

"You just feel that you are half a person. And you so often feel that you are stupid for not remembering things or for
not knowing things... Just the knowledge that I've goofed again or I said something wrong or I feel like I did something wrong or that I didn't know what I was saying or I forgot--all of these things are just so doggone common..."

This man is referring to his attempt to open a can of dog food, a very routine action: "...the best I could do was to try to dig a hole, make a little perforation and see if I could extend the side of it--and it was something like a panic...I'm too clumsy because of the Alzheimer's.... Right now, the doggie seems to be in fairly good shape. I'm not too sure am."

"We had a great time shopping, but...I bought everything in sight....My poor dear husband didn't stop me very much unless it was too outrageous and then I'd get very angry. I bought a pair of boots--galoshes really...and I told George it's something I've always wanted so we bought them and when we got home I had no memory of buying them--they were awful and cost $40...I used to be the sensible one in the family." --This shows the deterioration of judgement caused by Alzheimer's.

"It's a feeling like no other--like your engine is racing 100 mph and you can't go anywhere.... I'm getting cross at people and I hate that. When my psychologist kept asking me questions--the same ones over and over, I got so impatient inside that I had a strange impulse to throw my purse on the floor or better yet to bite him and say NO MORE!"