Even Though My Mom Can’t Remember Me, She Knows Me
When I tell someone my mom has Alzheimer’s, the first thing they usually ask is, “Does she know who you are?” There was a time when I could…
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I Worry About My Mom’s Death Every Day
I started writing my mom’s eulogy the other day. Not on paper, but in my head. Nothing has happened. Nothing has changed. In fact, things are…
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I’ll Hold My Mother’s Hands as Long as I Can
These are the hands that held me as I took my first breaths. The hands that fed me and changed my diapers and rocked me to sleep at night. The hands…
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My Mom is Dying
I’ll never forget the first time my mom looked at me and didn’t know who I was. The mall was ridiculously crowded that day, the way it usually is…
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The One Thing Alzheimer’s Cannot Take Away
Alzheimer’s is a cruel disease. It takes folks to lunch and then robs them blind—of the memory of what they just ate. It takes them to…
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The Patient Who Broke My Heart
*Due to regulations, names and some details were changed to protect the privacy of this patient.* It was a rainy Tuesday evening on a particularly…
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Grandma, Don’t Write On The Wall
I read an article today that brought tears to my eyes. It was about a woman and what she would say to her kids if she was diagnosed with…
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Eternal Music
In my age old book of childhood truths, angels were typically those “good doers” who would fly around and hang out somewhere in heaven. They were…
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A Thanksgiving Legacy
My mother-in-law Shirley was a gifted country cook. Thanksgiving at my in-law’s house was celebrated with a huge stuffed turkey, perfect gravy,…
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Add your VOICE to ours
The Alzheimer’s disease epidemic is here. More than 5 million people in the United States already have Alzheimer’s, the nation’s…
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