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Kris Kristofferson misdiagnosed with Alzheimer's disease
Fox News.com ^ | June 7, 2016

Posted on 06/07/2016 3:55:52 PM PDT by Kaslin

Kris Kristofferson has been battling memory loss for several years, but his condition has taken a marked turn for the better due to a surprising diagnosis.

Doctors have been telling Kristofferson that his worsening memory loss was caused either by Alzheimer’s or by dementia that was brought on by blows to the head he suffered in his athletic youth, when he took regular part in rough sports including football, boxing and rugby. The iconic singer-songwriter and actor tells Rolling Stone Country that it got so bad, he sometimes couldn’t remember what he was doing from one moment to the next. In typical Kristofferson fashion, he began to write a song about it.

“I see an empty chair / Someone was sitting there,” the lyrics begin. “I’ve got a feeling it was me / And I see a glass of wine / I’m pretty sure it’s mine.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: kriskristofferson; kristofferson; lymedisease; ticks
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1 posted on 06/07/2016 3:55:52 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
blows to the head he suffered in his athletic youth

Or drugs.

2 posted on 06/07/2016 4:05:24 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Kaslin

He was a Rhodes Scholar and a captain in the Army. Completed Ranger school and was a helicopter pilot.


3 posted on 06/07/2016 4:05:37 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Ken H

And he was the Rubber Duck too


4 posted on 06/07/2016 4:07:58 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom yes I know john 3:16)
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To: Kaslin

Willie forgets were he put his weed all the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gvTQFtGEac


5 posted on 06/07/2016 4:08:11 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Kaslin

Lyme disease....what other diseases were invented by the government on Plum Island.


6 posted on 06/07/2016 4:09:27 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Kaslin

Lyme disease is horrible.


7 posted on 06/07/2016 4:09:36 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Kaslin

I remember Johnny Cash singing “Sunday Morning Coming Down” back in 1969. I am pretty sure that Kris wrote it.

A great song.


8 posted on 06/07/2016 4:09:53 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Kaslin
A lot of the characters he played seemed a little confused or out of it or slow (not low IQ, just very slow moving and deliberate).

I assumed he was acting.

9 posted on 06/07/2016 4:11:50 PM PDT by x
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To: Ken H

That man has had a hell of a life.


10 posted on 06/07/2016 4:14:10 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: yarddog
I am pretty sure that Kris wrote it.

He did.

11 posted on 06/07/2016 4:29:07 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("The world is a dangerous place whose inhabitation always ends in death."~Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: trisham

My cousin’s daughter has Lyme disease. Its terrible and so expensive to treat. Insurance won’t cover it.


12 posted on 06/07/2016 4:30:27 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Kaslin

Good news. I’m waiting for the sequel to “Convoy” to come out.


13 posted on 06/07/2016 4:32:27 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (MAGA! Make America Great Again)
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To: yarddog

I love Johnny Cash but I hate that song.


14 posted on 06/07/2016 4:34:25 PM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: Kaslin

In recent years his wife would be just off stage to help him with lines to songs as he performed.


15 posted on 06/07/2016 4:35:01 PM PDT by Portcall24
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To: Vaquero

There are now several strains of borrelia ignored by the Fed, the Senate is investigating the CDC, ISDA, and ADLF.

See change.org

Burgdofieria and Borrelia are ignored by the FED but these are very real diseases and rampant in SE New England, but they have spread all over the world.

It’s a disease designed to “mimic” other diseases.


16 posted on 06/07/2016 4:37:11 PM PDT by acapesket (all happy now?)
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To: Kaslin

Me and Bobby McGee” is a song written by Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster.


17 posted on 06/07/2016 4:37:18 PM PDT by Portcall24
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To: Kaslin; Swordmaker

Reminds me of this old swordmaker post about spirochetes (one of which causes Lyme disease) and brushing your teeth with baking soda:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2769347/replies?c=1


18 posted on 06/07/2016 4:37:43 PM PDT by AZLiberty (A is no longer A, but a pull-down menu.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

My husband had it twice. Our insurance covered it, thank goodness.


19 posted on 06/07/2016 4:39:47 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: yarddog

Yes he did. And another memorable one is “Me and Bobby Mcgee”


20 posted on 06/07/2016 4:40:13 PM PDT by pfflier
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