It's not easy to properly comprehend the effect debilitating diseases have on people until you experience their effect yourself. It's easy to see them as terrible but improbable occurrences, something that clearly happens but is impossible to envision yourself suffering from. And yet, dementia scares the hell out of me. The idea that there's this invisible force that has no cure, no prevention, that will almost certainly effect you at some point in your life and only becomes more likely the longer you live somehow feels so much more real to me than cancer, or Ebola, or any other life threatening disease that I could come in contact with.

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