Dwight’s dad, Jimmie Davidson, started complaining about feeling confused. Doctors told his family that Jimmie had Alzheimer’s. “Quite honestly we didn't buy that”, Dwight said.
They too, took him to Saint John. By then, Jimmie was having trouble walking and Dwight watched his dad steadily get worse. “Literally from day to day to day.”
After a series of tests, neurologists diagnosed Dwight’s father with CJD. “You realize your father's personality is just disappearing and nothing anyone could do about it.”
By the time he left the hospital, Jimmie was comatose. He died a few days later, at home.
Dwight and Randy both fear their fathers caught CJD by eating contaminated meat.
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