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Post by loftybike on Apr 7, 2022 13:04:52 GMT
^^^I think it's rather Alzheimer, dementia or some other kind of degenerative brain disease. Aphasia is just a symptome. I'd guess that the family wants to protect Bruce from people making assumptions about his state and prognosis.
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Post by sputnik on Apr 7, 2022 13:40:19 GMT
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This. The causes are often strokes or dementia or some other degenerative disease. If it were strokes there would probably be other symptoms but if it’s dementia I could see it being a question of privacy and they don’t want to say more than just the aphasia, at least for now. I mean it kind of sounds like the only reason they said anything at all is because of the rumours about his health on set recently, or it got so bad they could no longer keep it under wraps.
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Post by trixie on Apr 7, 2022 15:27:53 GMT
^ That, and with all the work he's done in the past few years, for him to disappear from acting would be noticed. I think his condition has probably deteriorated to the point he really can't act anymore. I really didn't think about him not showing up for the Oscars Pulp Fiction thing, until this was announced. I doubt we'll be seeing him in public again.
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Post by Sarzy on Apr 7, 2022 15:43:51 GMT
Bruce's wife posted this recent photo on Instagram  |
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Post by no1novice on Apr 7, 2022 19:14:00 GMT
That’s lovely Sarzy
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Post by imnotbitter on Apr 7, 2022 20:28:32 GMT
Bruce's wife posted this recent photo on Instagram It's like the lights are on but nobody's home  |
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Post by loftybike on Apr 7, 2022 21:40:22 GMT
^^^He looks exhausted, defeated and a little disorientated. Poor guy.
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Post by constancespry on Apr 7, 2022 21:40:39 GMT
At least the Willis family has plenty of money, which always helps. Someone I know is taking care of a spouse with dementia. She is younger and still has to work to make ends meet, and for the health insurance. It is a big strain for her to be a caretaker while holding down a full-time job and paying for in-home care for 9 hours a day. There should be much more support for people with dementia and their families who don't have huge financial resources.
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Post by electrocutedsheep on Apr 8, 2022 13:29:31 GMT
That's one of the downsides of marrying a much older man. You might end up being their caretaker.
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Post by HWBL on Apr 8, 2022 13:57:37 GMT
That's one of the downsides of marrying a much older man. You might end up being their caretaker. The risk is indeed bigger with an older man/wife. But we have friends where the woman is 12 years older than her second husband. He was in a motor accident and no Aphasia but brain damage that resulted in lack of energy, lack of concentration, over-sensitivity to lights and sounds, so he's pretty much a shell of the young, robust, athletic, active man she married. |
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Post by Sarzy on Feb 16, 2023 21:13:03 GMT
Bruce Willis, who retired from acting last May as a result of aphasia, has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, his family announced on Thursday. In a statement posted to the website for the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration, the Die Hard actor’s family – wife Emma Heming, ex-wife Demi Moore, and daughters Rumer, Scout, Tallulah, Mabel and Evelyn – revealed Willis’s aphasia had progressed into a diagnosis of dementia. Problems with language and memory, which instigated rumors about his cognitive state and prompted his retirement in May 2022, are “just one symptom of the disease Bruce faces,” they wrote. “While this is painful, it is a relief to finally have a clear diagnosis.” The statement continued: “FTD is a cruel disease that many of us have never heard of and [which] can strike anyone. For people under 60, FTD is the most common form of dementia, and because getting the diagnosis can take years, FTD is likely much more prevalent than we know. “Today there are no treatments for the disease, a reality that we hope can change in the years ahead. As Bruce’s condition advances, we hope that any media attention can be focused on shining a light on this disease that needs far more awareness and research.” www.theguardian.com/film/2023/feb/16/bruce-willis-frontotemporal-dementia-aphasia-ftd |
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Post by brookie on Feb 16, 2023 21:51:00 GMT
Damn, that's sad.
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Post by coppercatseye on Feb 17, 2023 0:15:41 GMT
Oh, poor Bruce and family.
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Post by lindsaywhit on Feb 17, 2023 1:01:48 GMT
That picture haunts me a bit. When I, well, didn't know him but encountered him once in a while, he was usually the sharpest tack in the box. It's my understanding that could be uncomfortable at times, but he was wicked funny.
I'm so sorry for him and his family, but admire the way they are handling a really sad situation.
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Post by trixie on Feb 17, 2023 2:23:50 GMT
Well, I think this is what everyone suspected but yes it's still sad. He's only 67 so he could have many more years and at some point his family will have to go through their dad not recognizing them anymore. Which should be harder on the younger girls.
My grandmother had dementia and she lived to 98, the last 5 years or so in a nursing home. It was strange but the only family she recognized was my mom, my sister and me. Not her sons or other grandkids. We would go pick her up for Christmas and she thought my uncle (her son) was my boyfriend. We just went along with it. She also would ask where her husband was (he died in 1969) and thought he must be working shift work at the mill since she hadn't seen him lately. She liked to have one beer with her Christmas dinner and then she would smile and giggle for the rest of the night.
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