garcia marquez has dementia/

[Bekah]

Y'all have probably seen this already but it makes me soooo sad.   

From -    http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/brother-says-garcia-marquez-has-dementia/

Brother Says García Márquez Has Dementia
By DAVE ITZKOFF

Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian novelist and Nobel laureate, has dementia and is no longer writing, his younger brother, Jaime, has said. The Telegraph of London reported that in a lecture to students in Cartagena, Jaime García Márquez told the audience that Gabriel, who is 85, “is doing well physically, but he has been suffering from dementia for a long time.” The author often calls him to ask basic questions, Jaime García Márquez said, adding: “He has problems with his memory. Sometimes I cry because I feel like I’m losing him.”

Gabriel García Márquez, whose works of fiction include “Love in the Time of Cholera,” “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” and “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. In 1999 he was given a diagnosis of lymphatic cancer and underwent treatment that Jaime García Márquez said had hastened his memory problems.

“Dementia runs in our family and he’s now suffering the ravages prematurely due to the cancer that put him almost on the verge of death,” he said. “Chemotherapy saved his life, but it also destroyed many neurons, many defenses and cells, and accelerated the process.”

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