# Quasi's Latest Alzheimer's Update **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 18, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasis-latest-alzheimers-update/500239 "2009-06-18T23:55:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasis-latest-alzheimers-update/500239/21 "2009-08-17T23:33:09Z")
I’m very happy for you that you do not actually have dementia. Though it is very unfortunate that you spent all that time thinking you had EOAD, I think your posts here about Alzheimer’s disease helped raise a lot of awareness and concern, which could help those who do suffer from it. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasis-latest-alzheimers-update/500239/22 "2009-08-17T23:39:00Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > **Johnny, Quasi** – keep in in English, pls. Do you really need me to dig out the link to the “don’t post in other languages” rule? > > Thanks, > > twickster, MPSIMS moderator Ummm. I _thought_ I provided adequate translations for the phrase he asked about? Does that not meet with your approval, **twickster**? Sorry for my (our?) transgressions! No harm was meant, I assure you, and I for one, didn’t know about the rule, but now I do! 🙂 Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasis-latest-alzheimers-update/500239/23 "2009-08-17T23:45:54Z")
Thanks for the kind words, everyone! We’ll see where this new direction takes us and hopefully it’ll make me feel better. It does make me wonder though: I think this crap started a LONG time ago, because I can still remember some things (like turning left at a red traffic light, and getting disoriented in an intersection to the point where I just didn’t know which way to turn) happening to me as early as ten years ago? (Or is that as _late_ as 10 years ago?) Anyway, bottom line? I know IFTH, big time. I just wish I could enjoy it, like those guys on _Cuckoos’ Nest_.😃 J/K;) Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasis-latest-alzheimers-update/500239/24 "2009-08-17T23:54:44Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > Ummm. I _thought_ I provided adequate translations for the phrase he asked about? > > Does that not meet with your approval, **twickster**? > > Sorry for my (our?) transgressions! No harm was meant, I assure you, and I for one, didn’t know about the rule, but now I do! 🙂 > > Quasi **Quasi** , you’re right, you did translate – but since I know you do lapse into German sometimes, I went ahead and included you. I shouldn’t have, since you were on the right side of the line in this instance. For those who are curious, the rule is [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7697021&postcount=8). ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasis-latest-alzheimers-update/500239/25 "2009-08-18T00:01:33Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > **Quasi** , you’re right, you did translate – but since I know you do lapse into German sometimes… Heh-Heh! 😉 I lapse into more than **German** sometimes, **twicks!** 😉 Sometimes I get downright NEANDERTHAL!!! Where’s Bertha Butt? Thanks for the reminder, hon! Glad we’re still on good terms! Q ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasis-latest-alzheimers-update/500239/26 "2009-08-18T02:04:58Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > For those who are curious, the rule is [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7697021&postcount=8). > [@C K Dexter Haven\[/quote](#): > > Exceptions include requests for help with translation Which is what I asked. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasis-latest-alzheimers-update/500239/27 "2009-08-18T05:18:00Z")
Me and John have an “off-line” search on _ANOTHER_ phrase goin’ on right now, and I don’t think that man is gonna let me rest till I get him a translation which will satisfy him!😉 I don’t know _where_ my friend keeps coming up with all these archaic German _phrases_ and _sayings_, but I am _bound_ and _determined_ to discover their origins, and debate their meanings till my last dying breath! It’s great therapy for me, and I **thank** you, **Johnny L.A.** 🙂 You’re TESTING me, aren’t you, you little HEATHERN? 😉 No harm, no foul, and I’ll ALWAYS be y’all’s… Q ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasis-latest-alzheimers-update/500239/28 "2009-08-18T14:08:28Z")
**Johnny** , here are the two posts in question: > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Wie sagt Mann das auf Deutsch? (apparently in response to something in the blog?) > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > This reminds me of two things: ‘Sau-schnell’ (‘pig-fast’), applied to Porsches and other fast cars. Not sure of the origin. Possibly a variation of ‘road hog’? > > The other is my first high school German class. We did dialogs to practice particular sounds. For the ü-sound it was: > > Was tust du? > Ich übe Geige. > Bist du müde? > Ja. So a) you just randomly started writing in German, and b) I don’t see a request for translation in the second post, just a list of German phrases, apparently a Q&A exchange. I think it’s great if **Quasi** is helping you with your German – but either do it through PM or write an OP for a thread in GQ that poses a question that people other than the two of you will understand, so everyone can follow the conversation and other German-speakers can provide help. twickster, MPSIMS moderator ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasis-latest-alzheimers-update/500239/29 "2009-08-18T14:19:23Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > **Johnny** , here are the two posts in question: > > (apparently in response to something in the blog?) No, I was asking for a translation _into_ German of the phrase in the OP, and I quoted it in my post. > [@twickster](#): > > So a) you just randomly started writing in German, and b) I don’t see a request for translation in the second post, just a list of German phrases, apparently a Q&A exchange. You should have read the English part, where I said (in English) that a word **Quasi** used reminded me of high school German dialogs. > [@twickster](#): > > so everyone can follow the conversation and other German-speakers can provide help. Everyone _could_ follow it. ‘Johnny remembers some high school stuff. That stuff he wrote is it.’ What’s not to follow? As the rule has always been interpreted (on the rare occasions when I’ve seen it used), it has been a prohibition of writing OPs in languages other than English or for holding extended conversations in another language. My posts here do not fit those criteria. I don’t want to fight with you, but I think you were a little quick with the mod-stick. If you hadn’t posted, there would not have been more than two posts of mine in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasis-latest-alzheimers-update/500239/30 "2009-08-18T14:51:50Z")
I’m not going to split hairs here – you started posting in German, in two separate posts, and it was not clear to the casual reader why you were posting in German. (If you ask for a translation into German _in_ German, non-German-speakers like myself will not know what you’re talking about.) I asked you to stop doing that – a polite request, no mod stick in sight, no threats of warnings – and you argued with me. That, in general, is not the best way to respond to a polite request from a mod. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasis-latest-alzheimers-update/500239/31 "2009-08-18T21:31:17Z")
☹ ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasis-latest-alzheimers-update/500239/32 "2009-08-19T02:27:18Z")
> [@toadbriar](#): > > As for the rages… it’s probably hard to think of this at the time, but: would you harshly punish a dear friend - or even acquaintance - with strikes and pinches? Surely not? Please treat yourself as kindly as you’d treat anyone here. It’s heartbreaking to think of hands doing that to you - even your own. > > So happy for your renewed diagnosis! I was told early in my high school years (here in America) that my IQ was in the _genius_ range. I remember that. I’m just trying to _slap, punch and pinch_ myself _awake_. And _no_, I would never punish a dear friend. It’s _inward_! Always. I’d more than likely _love_ them to exhaustion! 🙂 Yeah, we’re going on from here, for sure! 🙂 I’m _only_ 59, fer Chrissakes! Despite the depression and _despite_ what I may write in the blog (which is what I truly feel when I write it), I really _would_ like to get better! Thanks! Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasis-latest-alzheimers-update/500239/33 "2009-08-19T02:48:10Z")
Whoa, so I’m assuming this is actually a good thing (at least about Alzheimers, right?) Good luck to you as always, **Quasi**!!! ---
**Author:** ![Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eugene_of_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasis-latest-alzheimers-update/500239/34 "2009-08-19T03:13:20Z")
All the best, Quasi. Really appreciate your sharing. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasis-latest-alzheimers-update/500239/35 "2009-08-19T04:08:50Z")
Good luck, Quasi, I hope you get this pseudo-dementia thing licked soon. You’re in my thoughts. So many good things have happened for you lately: getting married to the woman you’ve loved all these years and who still loves you. You’ll both experience the joy of your recovery from those mental health problems-- because I’m sure that’s going to happen I get the feeling that you’re still going to be working at explaining EOAD and pressing for more awareness of this disease that lies ahead for too many of us. Go, Quasi, go, and keep on sharing. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasis-latest-alzheimers-update/500239/36 "2009-08-19T05:40:29Z")
_“You… ain’t been blue…”_ (we need a musical-kinda smiley, to indicate when we’re singin’! ;)) Thanks, **MoodIndigo1** , and everyone else! God, I’m tryin’ my **BEST** to get a grip, but I think it’s gonna get worse before it can get better. Stay tuned to the blog, and _remember_, PLEASE kiddos: It’s “ **reality-based** ”: I no longer give a shit what _anyone_ thinks of me. I’m over it. I have **lived** , and I have **loved**! I have **enjoyed** , and been **disappointed** , but all in all? It ain’t _been_ that bad a trip on this ol’ bus! 🙂 Q ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasis-latest-alzheimers-update/500239/37 "2009-08-19T05:55:42Z")
It sounds barbaric, but ECT has been used as a last result treatment for recalcitrant cases of significant depression. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasis-latest-alzheimers-update/500239/38 "2009-08-19T06:10:09Z")
Gotta get back to Azeroth! 🙂 Thanks Q (and no - no electro-shock therapy for The German Boy! If I can’t make it back on my own, then I **sure** don’t wanna come back _that_ way!) ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasis-latest-alzheimers-update/500239/39 "2009-08-19T06:24:26Z")
Quasi, it’s good to hear that you’re doing well and that you’ve a different diagnosis. Mental illnesses are beasts, but hang in there, you’ll do fine. {{{big ol’ hugs}}} [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasis-latest-alzheimers-update/500239.md?page=1)