Former President Reagan rarely awake - report [View All]

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Please no smart comments on this one. I admit that I almost did, but I really do think DUers should be above it. Please bite your lip like I did. He is dying. Thanks. Don

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N04200664.htm

LOS ANGELES, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Former President Ronald Reagan, who suffers from advanced stages of Alzheimer's Disease, is now confined to a bed, rarely awake and unable to walk or talk, People magazine said in a report issued on Thursday.

In an essay accompanying the article about the former president's condition, daughter Patti Davis said people may still think Reagan, 92, is somewhat mobile and active, despite his well-publicized illness, because his family has guarded his privacy so zealously.

"But it would be a disservice to every family who has an Alzheimer's victim in their embrace to say any of that is true, and I don't believe my father would want us to lie," she wrote.

The magazine said Reagan spends his days either in a bed or occasionally in a wheelchair, in a small room at his home in the exclusive Bel Air section of Los Angeles, where he is kept out of the sight of all but his closest family and helpers.

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