Ted Turner Suffering From Dementia - Lewy Body

Estelle Getty had it too.

Guess Jane is about to see her third ex die. He didn’t seem well in the recent Fonda HBO documentary I just chalked it up to old age.

This is what Robin Williams was afflicted with as well, no?

My Uncle died from It. He became quite violent and had to be locked up. The disease progresses quickly compared to Alzheimer's.

Jane Fonda has already had pictures of herself taken, where's she's sitting on a lewy body and laughing.

r3 - From Wikipedia

The final autopsy report, released in November 2014, concluded that Williams' death was from "suicide due to asphyxia" by hanging (as suspected by the Marin County sheriff’s office on August 12, neither alcohol nor illegal drugs were involved, and prescription drugs present in his body were at "therapeutic" levels. The report also noted that Williams had been suffering "a recent increase in paranoia". An examination of his brain tissue suggested Williams suffered from "diffuse Lewy body dementia". Describing the disease as "the terrorist inside my husband's brain", his wife Susan Schneider said, "however you look at it—the presence of Lewy bodies took his life," referring to his previous diagnosis of Parkinson's.

The Lewy Body Dementia Association (LBDA) clarified the distinction between the term used in the autopsy report, diffuse Lewy body dementia—which is more commonly called diffuse Lewy body disease and refers to the underlying disease process—and the umbrella term, Lewy body dementia—which encompasses both Parkinson's disease dementia (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). According to LBDA spokesperson Dennis Dickson, "The report confirms he experienced depression, anxiety and paranoia, which may occur in either Parkinson's disease or dementia with Lewy bodies ... In early PD, Lewy bodies are generally limited in distribution, but in DLB, the Lewy bodies are spread widely throughout the brain, as was the case with Robin Williams."

Tragic to see a brilliant, adventurous guy reduced to this.

"terrorist inside..... brain" is as good a description as any of Lewy body dementia. My mom was terrorized by an invisible man who lived in her apartment, scrawled (invisible) obscenities on her walls and furniture, and left her death threats (take-out menus and other scraps of paper). He was always with her; she was in hell, and it took many months to get a diagnosis and a drug cocktail that relieved some of her symptoms.

I have nothing but sympathy for anyone with this disease.

Ted is all mixed up because his disease is as bad or worse than Alzheimer. Denial.

Incomprehension is a more likely explanation than denial.

Odd. I was just wondering whatever happened to him.

I was surprised at how how low energy Turner seemed in the documentary about Fonda. This explains it. When he said that he though their divorce was a mistake and that he was happier with Fonda than without her, I think he really meant it. It was nice to see them being on good terms after all these years.

Agree with R10. It's obvious he doesn't comprehend his dire situation. Though I think that is for the best.

His doctors maybe sugar coated it but an magnate like him usually wants to know the truth. I am sure he heard the truth and couldn't deal with it. That isn't the same as "incomprehension" because he falsely believes is "fatal" and it's not. It's progressive. Sounds like denial or displacement to me.

oops - my senility. he falsely believes ALZHEIMER'S is "fatal", and it's not.

R14 aren't all dementias ultimately fatal (unless you die of something else first)?

Is this the husband Jane Fonda divorced because he wouldn't worship god?

Call it what you will, r14, but the fact is that Lewy body dementia plays hell with cognitive function, whether or not one is a "magnate," and it's unlikely that he is able to understand (or keep clear in his mind if he briefly understood) what is happening to him.

This all started with multiple reruns Of The Andy Griffith Show, on Channel 17 WTBS.

Sorry, r19--are you also suffering from a form of dementia?

It should have been Jane.

Another good reason to whore it up while you can, boys.

[quote]Another good reason to whore it up while you can, boys.

[quote]In a television interview with Piers Morgan on May 3, 2012, Turner said he had four girlfriends, which he acknowledged was complicated but nonetheless easier than being married

He's 80, filthy rich and had a good life. I'm not going to weep. Actually, Ted Turner pre-Fonda was a Trump style guy - big mouth asshole.

R24 he donated ONE BILLION DOLLARS to the UN - an agency Trump called a fraud

But a liberal big mouth R24

Oh, he originated cable news and he also practically singlehandedly saved the American buffalo population.

[quote] This all started with multiple reruns Of The Andy Griffith Show, on Channel 17 WTBS.

SUPERSTATION WTBS!

R26, the reason Turner wanted to buy CBS in the 1980s was because he thought it - and the media in general - was too liberal.

My friend's mother has had Lewy body dementia for several years and she is quite mild mannered and sweet, whereas before, according to friend, she was quite a type A. She forgets everything natch. She has benefited a lot from a day care program for dementia sufferers. The progression of her disease has not been faster than any other dementia patient that I know of.

People with dementia don't die FROM the dementia but from side effects of the dementia. My own mother had vascular dementia and she ended up dying because her respiratory and digestive systems were failing. We were just about to put her on tube feeding when she died in her sleep. My sainted stepfather took care of her (with paid caregivers) at home. It was a relief when she died--it took seven years--she was one month short of 89. We never had a good relationship (she was very temperamental and domineering to say the least), so her death was basically a relief.

Don’t forget he started TCM! What would we do without it?

Add another dozen years, R31, and Turner would have invented FOX.

My Dad died from Alzheimer's (or, really, its side effects). I wouldn't wish dementia on anyone, ever. His own mother had died of it, and he was terrified of it, but he was right there in the doctor's office with me when his PCP confirmed it, after multiple tests (you can't really be sure until afterwards). To know that your own consciousness is going to disintegrate during your life is a fate worse than death. I have the genetic disposition for it, but I don't have anyone to care for me, so I won't allow myself to decline the way my poor Dad did.

Ted Turner was a smart, opinionated, interesting, dare I say, dashing man. I certainly didn't agree with him, often, but I liked his spirit. He had (has) balls.

Twin cousins of mine have it. I hope Turner endows a foundation for it. Easy to misdiagnosis. Horrible consequences.

why do elderly people with dementia lose so much weight? My friend's dad has it and he lost a lot of weight in 1 year.

R35, elderly people without dementia lose a lot of weight.

R36 but why?

"Add another dozen years, [R31], and Turner would have invented FOX."

But he didn't. He's still alive today. More than a dozen years have been added.

Still no Fox 2 Electric Boogaloo from Turner.

Explain that, Mr. Genius!

God's punishment for film colorization

R30, I didn't think people with LBD lasted more than a year or two, max, after diagnosis. My understanding was that if the person was still alive after a year or two, the diagnosis was likely wrong (like our Peggy who is still alive after being (MIS)-diagnosed with pancreatic cancer over a decade ago). It can be hard to parse LBD from a few of the other devastating neurodegenerative diseases-- there are a few that are worse than Parkinson's Disease -- one is LBD and there are a couple more that I remember reading about but can't remember the names of. They progress at a nightmarish speed.

"God's punishment for film colorization"

Yeah, I hear God's a real film purist. Has all of Buster Keaton's films on his computer.

AND THEY'RE COLORIZED, BITCH! NOT ONLY THAT, HE HAS ALL THAT TREACLY SHIRLEY TEMPLE CRAP COLORIZED TOO! THAT'S RIGHT: THE LITTLE PRINCESS. THE DRESS WAS PURPLE!

Ted, is that you?

I have Huey Body Dementia

R6, sorry but Robin Williams has had serious issues since birth. Not Estelle or Ted. Williams a bona fide loon even if lovable to some. He was never right.

R30, Sicilian, right?

R8, that reaction is from being molested by male relative when child.

R41 The Little Princess was filmed in technicolor, you idiot.

R44. Or perhaps he was very right as in gifted.

He was looking pretty old--almost unrecognizable-- in the Jane Fonda documentary