“Insider” Greg O’Brien Continues His Story on Alzheimer’s on NPR
Part 2 of Greg O’Brien’s NPR report on his personal journey with Alzheimer’s is now available. He has a remarkable way of capturing the process with words — a bit of irony:
“A diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, says Greg O’Brien, doesn’t mean your life is instantly over. ‘There is this stereotype that … you’re in a nursing home and you’re getting ready to die,’ he told NPR. ‘That’s not true.’
‘It’s like a plug in a loose socket,’ he says. ‘Think of yourself, wherever you are in the country, and you’re sitting down and you want to read a good book, and you’re in a nice sofa chair next to a lamp at night. And the lamp starts to blink. You push the plug in and it blinks again and you push the plug in. … Well, pretty soon you can’t put the plug back in again because it’s so loose, it won’t stay there. And the lights go out forever.'”