Bruce Willis has been diagnosed with dementia
He previously was diagnosed with aphasia.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bruce-willis-frontotemporal-dementia-most-184658386.html
VERY SAD.
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I've never been a fan of Willis but I certainly wouldn't wish this on him. Poor guy.
shareThis one hits different.
I am not even the biggest Willis fan, but I sure loved him in Pulp Fiction, Die Hard and especially as Korben Dallas in 5th Element. To see such an icon and symbol of masculinity wither away in one of the most horrible diseases you can get is tough. I wish him the best and cherish his work even more now.
I love what you said 🥰
shareI didn't think this was recent news. I've read that (before the dementia was far advanced), he blamed this on a stunt that went wrong on the set of Tears of the Sun, when he was hit in the head by a pyrotechnic device employed for one of the movie's stunts -- in fact he sued the production company for it.
I don't believe it can ever be certain, with all the variables involved, and the years elapsed between the filming of that movie and the onset of his symptoms, but it's certainly possible. Traumatic brain injury can have such tragic effects. Penthouse pet and B movie scream queen Julie Strain suffered a severe head injury in a horse riding accident in her twenties, bad enough to cause a severe case of retrograde amnesia, from which she never recovered, and by her fifties, she was suffering dementia as well. She died aged just 58.
Traumatic brain injury is no joke. The human body is such a tremendously complex and finely balanced thing. I suppose it shouldn't come as a surprise that a sudden, terrible injury to its central nervous system should cause such damage as to be, while not immediately fatal, enough to throw the whole organism into an imbalance that will rob years, even decades of lifespan from the unfortunate victim.
Likewise, I've heard this before.
shareSo just one brain injury is enough? Sorry. Not buying it. If that were true, every boxer would have dementia.
shareAnd you got your medical degree where?
That's what I thought.
Lots of boxers do suffer permanent damage from traumatic brain injury. That's what happened to Muhammad Ali. That's what it means when people refer to old, washed up fighters as being "punchy" or "punch drunk." The medical term for this condition is chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and it is caused by "repetitive, mild injury to the brain" (emphasis added). Julie Stain, whom I mentioned suffered a head that was not mild, it was serious enough to permanently deprive her of most of her memory from before the accident. That's more a more serious head injury than I've ever heard of a boxer sustaining (Duk Koo Kim had a subdural hematoma, which is a different kind of head injury, and not necessarily fatal if treated in time).
How serious a head injury is depends on a lot of variables. The one Bruce Willis suffered on the set of Tears of the Sun was the result of a hard object that was launched by an explosive charge, and which struck him in the head, probably a lot harder than any punch. After so much time passed since the accident, it's impossible to say that was the cause, but it's probably also impossible to rule it out.
Something people don't mention and medical community likes to ignore is diet/nutrition.
It plays such an important role.
It's ignored on purpose doesn't make lots of money and people are healthier because of it which they don't want.
Julie Strain case you are just assuming no scientific evidence to back it up.
We do not even know her full medical details or even what her brain scans was like.
Oh no, poor guy. Bless him and his family 😔🧡
shareDamn. Been a fan since Moonlighting. Respect and sympathy to the man and his family.
shareThis is really sad. I grew up watching the guy. He seems to have lived a good life, but still.
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