:30 "Keys" Know the 10 Signs - Early Detection Matters

[zuniga6412]

Just recently my husband has gotten confused weather its day or night. This has happened 3 times in just 1 month. The first time it happened i thought he was kidding cause he's like that, but then i realized he was serious. The second time it happen'd i became concerned, and yesterday at 2:45 PM he comes in and ask me and my daughter why we were up so early, i told him to look outside that it was day time. I don't believe its a coincidence anymore. Just wondering.

[SuperHer0Fan]

I just did this last week with my phone...

And I'm 14...

I was just getting milk and my hands were full and the phone was in my hand! *.*

[doctorfeelucky]

@SuperHer0Fan that would be stress

[livesince1985]

you know what sucks! that i always leave the keys in the most oddest of places too

[terminator847]

So what's the point of knowing the symptoms of alzheimer's if there's no cure? To make the victim stressed?

[wildvenisson]

@terminator847 There is medication to slow the progress of the disease. Its hard to know that they aren't going to recover but buying them time for a year or two means they and their relatives have the chance to say goodbyes before the more devastating phases come in.

[viperreturns]

Its not nice at all, I hope we find a cure

[HaniiPuppy]

Why do they say "olz-imers" instead of "Alt-simers"?

[scott8919]

That's the correct pronunciation.

[HaniiPuppy]

No it's not (although it would've probably been better to have said "Alts-himers") - it was named after the German scientist Alois Alzheimer - where, in German, the Z represents a voiceless alveolar plosive followed by a voiceless alveolar fricative, as opposed to the voiced alveolar fricative that it normally represents in English. And I have no idea how an A, normally an open front unrounded vowel, becomes open-mid back and rounded.

[scott8919]

Well, I stand corrected. :-)

My best guess is that words can change their pronunciation country-to-country, and "ahls-heimers" is the Americanization of the name. Like how someone in America can say they drive a Hyundai ("Hun-day") and in Korea they drive a "Hee-un-day", and in Australia it's a "Hi-un-die".