Norm: The Life of an Extraordinary Person | Real Stories Full-Length Documentary

Send me away later. No, Karen, never the Normans, they only went with

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ly nice people, they didn't have any. They had their own children and they just wouldn't be a baby to them, but they loved him dearly. We were depressed and we could see it and we were free to do more things than we were, but we were trying to do. We also had so much fun socially and we were so busy with the building and the numbers that we had to strip away the closeness. You all are so fast that you don't even notice what's going on around you and we were, we were, we were in the fast lane , moving quickly and I think my parents were very excited to be on that track and were

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ly enjoying it. and they got bigger and bigger and I, when I was a teenager, my family was very rich a few years after Norman moved here, my family's business went bankrupt, it was a really stressful period for everyone when you're on the road.

Yes, people will be with you when you are going down, no one will know you. I know what it is. I know what it is. Our family has grown closer since then and the rules have taken a more central role, but it was really shocking. On my parents' 65th wedding anniversary, when Norm didn't seem to recognize Mom and backed away from her. He was very afraid. I tried to hide it, but he made me wonder what would be the next time he didn't give us a hug. I'm just telling you guys to get out here and then something launched and then he couldn't recover for a few minutes, maybe he was waiting for someone else in the last two weeks when the sun was setting like we had to give him a lot of dinners. that you know there's just things in his brain that are just dying or disappearing or whatever it was that bothered me at the time smelling it we couldn't even do more for Norman underneath it was heard here don't let the harmony in it we're just Too old now to To deal with the situation, was Norman doing his thing?

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, but remember how I showed you, happy face, hold your brush, yeah, like that, here we go, there are two times, look in his mouth, okay, who is he? mom dad, thank you, can you do that? We're losing the Norman that we haven't always known and that's really hard and I think you know sometimes it's okay. Yes, dear, I will stay here. He just latches on and hugs me good and that's happened you know two or three times since he's been sick oh your paper or do you want to get your paper I don't feel like I'm reaching for him I feel like sometimes I'm just Talking to myself and with a shock of insulin yesterday morning for some we heard a crash and he had just fallen on his face in the bathroom and what's going on he's conscious so I think he has ribs and everything hurts from the fall.

He had been very, very fatigued. for about a week, I mean, in bed all day, every day, without any spark for him and on Monday morning, if he got up, I thought great, you must feel better and I was giving him breakfast, he was getting ready to leave and everything. suddenly his eyes rolled back in his head and he started having seizures Hey, okay, whatever you want, put us on your back, okay, how come we're really going by faith? Here are the things you are going to improve. Okay, rainy, go to sleep. Yo, Huggies, sweetie, you're okay, good night, the winter was really hard, but I think he's at a point now where we can certainly push him a little harder to do things like raisin bread.

How are you very tired today? Norm at some level. I feel like if you don't let him sleep if I don't give in to this Alzheimer's. Maybe you can prevent him from developing it somehow when you can get him out of the house. Great, I don't want him to have to leave our house when he sleeps. a lot or or acts in a way that you know, it just reminds me like, oh, he's progressing, this is all progressing, it's scary, he's had a couple more seizures, whatever these seizures are, how many has he had now, maybe six or seven, and he will tell you. he had the

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al shakes, no you're going to tell me about your shake, yes I find he doesn't listen if he's not looking at you, they seem to happen mainly in the morning.

Most of the time I see seizures at a much later stage than this, so you? I think he needs to increase his Alzheimer's medication. I think at this stage what we do is switch to Remeron which is more useful for moderators to post compared to the mild stage, so after Remeron it doesn't work any more than before. I'm just thinking about starting to talk about it and I'm reluctant to do it, it's really a question of how much you can do for him. not walking is quite surprising, sometimes people don't want to move, it's not that they can't or there's nothing obvious.

Saying they can't, I mean, if you have someone who can't bear weight, can you carry them into the bathtub? I'm not telling you when that will happen, no, because people vary a lot, but at some point you have to do it. You'll be thinking what are you going to do that and you're not happy, yeah, oh, okay, okay, do you need to go to the bathroom? Go to the bathroom if you have to, that's all, quick, quick. Personally, I don't want to see Norman go to a nursing home, I mean. Time will tell, but I don't feel in my heart that Karyn can't handle it.

I think Karen is afraid of the unknown. I think we all have it to some extent. Come on, let's get Tolson to take his pills, okay. Karen is very worried. and he's very stressed so Claude is throwing a party for Karen's 50th birthday which I think she deserves and desperately needs it's about love that's what makes people live longer that's what makes them turn on the water with the world that's true anyone with Alzheimer's that's true anyone with anything I really feel constantly frustrated by the fact that most of my patients are in inappropriate environments, a lot of them and that's why they have problems and I don't want to give them pills for the behavior caused by the

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who is in the wrong scenario that is not a psychiatric problem it is a social problem In fact, I had some doubts about making this film, not so much for the relatives and caregivers of elderly people with syndrome Down syndrome, but for people who have a baby newly diagnosed with Down syndrome, they are baffled.

To already see a loop and know that this baby is also going to get Alzheimer's early is terrible and there was that article with the terrible title condemned from birth, I mean, y'all, I think it was really cool that an article was written about the link between Down Syndrome and Alzheimer's unfortunately the headline put such a negative spin on the whole issue and caused a lot of outrage within the community. We got a call from Renata who has two young daughters with Down syndrome and she wanted to come and meet with us for me. It was very

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al, I have two children with Down syndrome, so to read anyone on paper trays and you know, I would describe it as condemned, you know, it's a slap in the face, yeah, like anyone without a reservation treatment, yeah, right, and I really didn't. it's like oh you're young you're going to get all the stars and that's it, yes you need to raise awareness and you need to try to do it in a positive way too but instead of raising awareness this article suddenly became one reason some people say look, this is the reason we do prenatal screening and this is why we should abort people with Down syndrome.

Ultimately, we don't see where that kind of thing will take us, then we can identify other syndromes like Genet's. A throwaway society reflects our values ​​in the way we treat vulnerable people in our communities. G

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a is one of the new generation of people with Down syndrome because people with Down syndrome did not age as much, we touched many lives, it gave me hope for the future. I think we probably didn't enjoy seeing him, he's doing great, he suddenly started to go back to his old self, he wanted to go to the bakery and do things and luckily his medication is still working and I don't have to change him right now, very nice, Norman, very nice, yes, it's hard to keep up with him.

You know he does around here, and when he gets home, the first thing he does is go directly to his room and gets into his papers. and it's like I think that almost calms him down, he doesn't just scramble them and you know, pile them up and pile them up, he really looks and never misses a cruising ball, the ball that he's almost somehow coming back to. A little bit back to childhood we know some people with boats. I'll take it out into the water. Morrigan we might not be able to take it on every vacation this summer last summer we weren't entertaining any of those thoughts so obviously there's a lot to change mom nice car I like it but medically it's pretty much the same except he doesn't have seizures, but we're having days where he's really off, we've been really distracted or sleeping until 3:00 in the afternoon, like we literally could.

You don't pick it up and then have a day like this, how do you think? Oh, okay, board the kid, you know, yeah, you lose the medication, but it's important because we know it's working and you know it. For us, we know that has made a big difference. difference and in terms of our whole quality of

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, did you expect that by now it would have deteriorated? We see that more than the progression, we have seen a fairly rapid progression, yes, nothing like this. I was looking back and like. We've been here since it's not 5, no, no, we've been here since today, yeah, baby, what are we thinking in the Red Room?

Yeah, remember, we thought we called you, we landed like eight weeks later, sit tuned. this again sudoko, the house saves it and is ready for me perfect thank you very much, where did you get this one? uh-uh well, I didn't think we'd get to travel with Norman again, and he loved going during the summer. On vacation to PGI, we are taking him back to the island for his 58th birthday. My parents will be there at the same time, so we are going to have a nice celebration and it is very nice to see him doing so well.

Hello, Beau the Wall. between our room, our headboards where we were both buttered against that thank you and he would be on the catwalk and then I go, I find myself like this, what don't you remember? He doesn't understand what's going on, he just goes back to his roles and everything is fine with me. Now I accept it better. I still don't like him and I still feel like I'm fighting it sometimes because I didn't want to see the evidence of his Alzheimer's. He now he's falling asleep. If that is not the case. A lot of the problem with Alzheimer's is just losing Norman, so I guess maybe I'm not prepared for what comes next and I feel this love for him and for Happiness and with the time we have left and I'll be okay with that , people think that Claudie and I'm giving up something to have Norman with us doesn't mean that he contributes as much to us as we do to him, aren't you good at coming to the church to pay your visit?

Hey? That's good. Say a prayer for me and I'll tell you. one for you will be

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of grace the Lord is with you Jesus holy mere God pray for us sinners no no the shelter did it amen good hmm I hope to see you again at some point Norman things are not going as well as planned I will not be celebrating the birthday Norman number 50, my dad is very sick and now we are trying to figure out how to get him back to Halifax, he is your favorite sister, tomorrow we will pack up and bring dad home, he really isn't feeling well at all.

When you get rid of all the artificiality and superficiality and come down to earth, life is aw

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y good, money and stuff is the curse of all of you, Norman, really, hold on to the master, we are the dining room, we learn that daddy will be okay, but this is I'm really getting a lot out of it and starting to realize that my parents are getting older and that the parts I had so much difficulty with as a kid aren't as painful or unmentionable as they used to be. be and at some point in the process things have changed and I will still cry watching sad movies about children taking children and all that, but I don't feel personally responsible, I feel free, there is no way he is going anywhere else under this house.

We will make sure that doesn't happen. Oh, we'll do everything we can to make sure he can stay here because we don't want to lose him.