BREAKING NEWS: Bruce Willis, 67, is diagnosed with degenerative brain condition

Daily Mail

[Tea Drinker]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10669119/Bruce-Willis-announces-diagnosed-brain-condition-step-away-acting.html

[Tea Drinker]

Actor Bruce Willis has been diagnoses with a brain condition called aphasia His family said in a statement he'll be 'stepping away from the career that has meant so much to him' The condition is an impairment of language, affecting the production or comprehension of speech and the ability to read or write

[1Old Pro]

Ouch, 67 is too young.

[ClearCase_guy]

That’s sad. I’ve always liked him.

[Rummyfan]

Sad news. Prayers for Bruce Willis and his family.

[Artemis Webb]

Very sad to hear this.

[V_TWIN]

More info on that condition here:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/aphasia/symptoms-causes/syc-20369518

[Flick Lives]

Sad to hear this. Bruce Willis is one of my go to action heroes in the movies ever since “Die Hard”. Not just a good physical actor, but a good dramatic actor. He was awesome in “The Sixth Sense”.

[Col Frank Slade]

This condition often follows a stroke.

This sounds non stroke related. How sad.

[Erik Latranyi]

Very sad:

Aphasia leads to impairment of language, speech, comprehension, and the ability to read and write. It results from an injury to the brain due to stroke, head trauma, tumors, or infections. The severity of the symptoms depends on the area of the brain affected and the extent of damage caused and may include:

Speaking short or incomplete sentences
Writing or speaking words or sentences that don’t make sense
Difficulty in finding the right words to speak or write
Substituting one word for another or one sound for another
Speaking unrecognisable words
Inability to follow others conversations
Migraines, seizures, or transient ischemic attack (TIA) may cause temporary episodes of aphasia

This sounds like what may be affecting Joe Biden, especially since he had 2 brain tumors in the past.

[gattaca]

Very sad. My mother was just diagnosed with this.

[Grampa Dave]

Aphasia is a language disorder that affects a person’s ability to communicate.

It can occur suddenly after a stroke or head injury, or develop slowly from a growing brain tumor or disease.
Aphasia affects a person’s ability to express and understand written and spoken language.

Once the underlying cause is treated, the main treatment for aphasia is speech therapy.

Common: More than 200,000 US cases per year.

Sometimes, it is the lead symptom in battered brain disease, with former pro football players and boxers.

[Tennessee Conservative]

The Sixth Sense was awsome. He’s a good Conservative too, I think.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Of all the actors, you can just about always count on Bruce Willis to be in very good movies. This marks the end of an era, I suppose.

[Puppage]

Amen!

[avenir]

I’m sorry to hear that. Prayers up.

[T.B. Yoits]

From Wikipedia: Aphasia is an inability to comprehend or formulate language because of damage to specific brain regions. The major causes are stroke or head trauma. Aphasia can also be the result of brain tumors, brain infections, or neurodegenerative diseases, but the latter are far less prevalent.

[Tennessee Conservative]

I think my husband has the beginning stages of this. He’s 84 and sometimes you need a translator to figure out what he really means when he’s talking. No, he won’t go to the doctor. Besides being 84, he was thrown from his truck on I-75 about 20 years ago and had “closed head frontal lobe trauma”.

[Sans-Culotte]

This sounds like what may be affecting Joe Biden, especially since he had 2 brain tumors in the past.

I agree that Biden behaves like it may be his problem. But I don't think he had tumors; I think it was aneurysms.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Aphasia seven days after second dose of an mRNA-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccine

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8223021/

[Michael.SF.]

One of the best Christmas movies ever: Die Hard.

That is too bad.