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Sandra Day O'Connor Reveals She Has Dementia
Townhall.com ^ | October 23, 2018 | Cortney O'Brien

Posted on 10/23/2018 9:52:22 AM PDT by Kaslin

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’ Connor, the first woman to ever sit on the Supreme Court, revealed on Tuesday that she is suffering from dementia and likely Alzheimer's disease. The diagnosis had been made "some time ago."

"While the final chapter of my life with dementia may be trying, nothing has diminished my gratitude and deep appreciation for the countless blessings in my life," she wrote in a public letter. "As a young cowgirl from the Arizona desert, I never could have imagined that one day I would become the first woman justice on the U.S. Supreme Court."

O'Connor is 88 years old. She said she wanted to compose this letter while she is "still able to share some personal thoughts."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: dementia; elderly; known4decades; oconnor; sandradayoconnor; supremecourt
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1 posted on 10/23/2018 9:52:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

And rbg has narcolepsy?


2 posted on 10/23/2018 9:54:07 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Kaslin

Prayers up. Didn’t her husband also developed dementia?


3 posted on 10/23/2018 9:55:07 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: Mercat

Yep. that was a heartbreaking story. He ended up not knowing his wife, but fell in love with another patient in the place he was living and they got married.

decent story of it here:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1576716/Judge-lost-husband-to-Alzheimers-and-love.html


4 posted on 10/23/2018 10:02:27 AM PDT by stylin19a ( Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: stylin19a

I knew about O’Connor’s husband (because of Alzheimers) falling in love with a woman in the nursing home. I didn’t know that he married the woman!

How heartbreaking for Sandra. She said she just wanted her husband to be happy.

Her husband died in 2009.


5 posted on 10/23/2018 10:06:01 AM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: stylin19a

I never knew that, thanks.


6 posted on 10/23/2018 10:09:30 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Kaslin

As a nurse, I’ve seen so many patients with dementia who were judges, doctors, lawyers, and professors in their former lives before succumbing
to this disease. Doesn’t skip anyone.


7 posted on 10/23/2018 10:23:03 AM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: Kaslin

So sad. My Grandmother had this horrible disease.


8 posted on 10/23/2018 10:25:18 AM PDT by Londo Molari
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To: Kaslin

Appointed to the US Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan who preceded her into those depths and who also took himself off of the public stage for the same reason. Dementia, no matter how it happens is a horrible condition for the victim and the family!


9 posted on 10/23/2018 10:26:03 AM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: stylin19a

I remember reading about him and it really brought tears to my eyes.


10 posted on 10/23/2018 10:29:02 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: stylin19a

I thought he and Sandra were married until his death? I never knew he married the other woman.


11 posted on 10/23/2018 10:30:18 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: SES1066

I was working with her niece at the time and she came in to work and said she had answered the phone at her Aunt Sandy’s home and told us it was President Reagan calling with regard to the Supreme Court position.


12 posted on 10/23/2018 10:32:22 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: RooRoobird20; Mercat; Menehune56
I don't mean to mislead...my memory looks to be whacked\made-up re: them getting married.
I don't find anything that says they were....only as a girlfriend.
sorry
13 posted on 10/23/2018 10:35:25 AM PDT by stylin19a ( Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: hsmomx3

u r right. sorry. see my post 13


14 posted on 10/23/2018 10:36:12 AM PDT by stylin19a ( Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: Kaslin

Horrible, and sad.


15 posted on 10/23/2018 10:38:12 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: LibsRJerks

One of my home care patients was a physicist in the Manhattan Project.


18 posted on 10/23/2018 10:40:36 AM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.r)
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To: Kaslin

I may have disagreed with Sandra Day O’Connor on a variety of subjects, but in her current state, I can only respond with the most raw and sincere sympathy.

Just awful and sad, to have your life removed from your conscious mind, memory by memory.

She removed herself from the judicial stage when she needed to, and I give her credit for that. May God grant her and her family the strength to withstand this trial with grace.


19 posted on 10/23/2018 11:25:07 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: rlmorel

Amen. Couldn’t have said it better myself.


20 posted on 10/23/2018 11:30:01 AM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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