There is such an impressive line in "Dream Travel":
"Death is not the end of life, forgetting is. ”For the deceased, being remembered by future generations is not another continuation of life.
Some people say that time is the fairest, and everyone is equal, whether he is poor or rich, no matter what her status is, she will be defeated in front of the years.
When our bodies are no longer young, then the spiritual wealth that can be left to future generations is the most cherished thing.
In fact, Xiaoyu has always felt that it is not terrible not to be remembered after leaving the world, what is really terrible is that a person is still alive, but he gradually forgets this world and is abandoned by time.
And the disease that erases vivid memories from the mind is not unfamiliar, that is, Alzheimer, who is known as the "most gentle terminal disease".
It brutally and gently erases all memories and restores the brain to its factory settings, leaving no trace behind.
Not long ago, the famous actor Song Dandan revealed on the show that she had Alzheimer's disease, which is often referred to in medicine as Alzheimer's disease.
Years of stage career have already made her sick, and the fading memories often make her forget whether she has taken drugs or not.
In order to avoid multiple doses, she had to divide the medication into small portions and mark the date, just enough for a week, and then take it according to the date.
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Even so, she often forgets that several times she was stopped by the nanny and vaguely remembered the reality that she had taken medicine.
But Song Dandan on the stage still comforted everyone humorously:
"Being sick is not necessarily a bad thing, my mother forgot a lot of painful things after her illness and left only good memories. ”This is probably the first time she told the audience about her illness in the show, and it also made Xiaoyu feel in a trance for the first time, it turned out that more than ten years have passed since the last time she was seen on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala;
It turns out that it has been several years since the last time I saw her in a movie;
Unconsciously, those familiar faces, those bridges that are still talked about, have been covered with a layer of dust under the blur of time.
After sweeping away the dust, Song Dandan in memory is still the comedy queen on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala in childhood, bringing us countless laughs, and the thick northeast accent coupled with the "willow leaf curved eyebrows cherry mouth" joke seems to add a little more aroma to the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
On the stage, she is still the humorous Northeast aunt "Baiyun", and off the stage, she is already over sixty years old, and in her aging body, only the heart that goes to the stage is still young.
Although the classics in my memory have not faded, the pace of time is too hurried, and the traces of existence have been gently erased unconsciously.
We don't know how hard it is for her to revisit the jerky script lines over and over again in the struggle against the disease, but it may be a different kind of happiness that she can be dragged back to the applause and cheers of the audience in the lights of thousands of homes again and again.
Xiaoyu still remembers that Song Dandan once said to his son in a variety show:
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You know that mom is really effective, has a quality of life, at most only 10 years.
In a word, how much bitterness of being a parent is expressed.
Even if the memory fades away, the only thing that makes them worry about it is their own children.
In fact, Alzheimer's disease brings patients not only forgetting, but also gradually erasing their health and dignity.
What's even more frightening is that the incubation period of this disease is as long as 20 years, and the patients are no different from normal people during the incubation period, and when the patients enter the stage of mild cognitive dysfunction from obvious clinical symptoms, most people will not realize that this is a pathological change.
Most people will only think that it is due to the forgetfulness caused by old age.
When forgetfulness worsens and I think of going to the hospital, more than 80% of them have reached the stage of moderate dementia.
As the world's largest neurodegenerative disease, there are currently about 10 million Alzheimer's patients in China, and it is expected to reach 30 million by 2050.
In the early stages of the disease, patients will find that their memory is gradually decreasing, and they will gradually develop aphasia, visuospatial impairment, and then gradually weaken their personality and executive skills.
When one day, your closest parents gradually become strangers under the torture of illness, when your most familiar relatives gradually forget you and live in your own world forever, I don't know whether to feel sorry for them or relief
It is the patient who is forgotten by time, but it is the family behind it who keeps chasing the time.
According to the doctor:
"This is not only a physical disease, but also a serious social problem, and behind every Alzheimer's patient is a exhausted family. ”What's even more terrifying is that Alzheimer's disease has a tendency to get younger and younger.
In February this year, a news that a 19-year-old boy had Alzheimer's disease was widely noticed.
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This is the youngest known patient in the world, but in the future, it is likely that many more young people will follow suit.
It is reported that he has had difficulty concentrating since he was 17 years old, and even loses his memory in a short period of time.
He couldn't remember what he had done the day before, he couldn't forget why he had suddenly appeared somewhere, and he couldn't devote himself to his studies at an age when he should have been studying, and his reaction speed slowed down day by day.
What's even more terrifying is that he has no family history of genetic disease, and he can't find other "channels" for the disease.
For this reason, for the first time in the history of Alzheimer's disease research in the world, relevant experts proposed that young people may also develop non-hereditary Alzheimer's disease.
At the age when he should have bloomed wantonly, this 19-year-old boy was forced to press the pause button of youth in the most helpless way, and in the increasingly blurred memory, he fell under the gears of fate.
So, is Alzheimer's disease really incurable, can only let time crush our memories, and finally be forgotten by the world?
In fact, even if we can't restore the beauty we once had, we can use the small warmth in life to gradually resist the erosion of disease.
For example, find some old objects related to him, take him to re-walk the path of memories over and over again, and take him to relive that faded memory.
Another example is to repeat the bits and pieces of the past to her, so that the trivial memories are full of scum, at least in that dark time, someone has warmed each other, and some things have never been forgotten.
We can't resist the intrusion of time, and we can't stop the tide of oblivion from swallowing up the shoals of reason.
But before erasing all the past, I hope that the pace of time will slow down, a little slower, and I hope that the warm memory will be a little longer, and it will be warmer for a while.
We can't reverse the status quo, so let the memory ripple the most gentle splash in the microwave of the years.