Alzheimer’s Took My Mother’s Life. A Pandemic Stole Her Funeral.
If you were only allowed to have ten people at your mother’s funeral, who would you pick? How would you…
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If you were only allowed to have ten people at your mother’s funeral, who would you pick? How would you…
Continue ReadingMy great-grandmother lived a difficult life. She grew up during the Great Depression and its harsh aftereffects. Once married, her…
Continue ReadingMy father has Alzheimer’s. He’s in the middle stage of the disease. He still recognizes his wife and all six…
Continue ReadingThese are uncertain times. And I don’t just mean because of the pandemic. My mom is currently dying from Alzheimer’s…
Continue ReadingI’ve been thinking a lot about death lately. Death and grief and the impending doom of losing my mom. (Yeah,…
Continue ReadingI took this picture because I wanted to remember. I wanted to remember the way my grandma’s hand felt under…
Continue ReadingI will never know what it’s like to see my mom’s car pull up to my house. I will never…
Continue ReadingMy husband recently told me he doesn’t remember what I was like before my mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. I…
Continue ReadingMy mom could have died when I was 25, but she didn’t. She was, however, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, which…
Continue ReadingWhen I tell someone my mom has Alzheimer’s, the first thing they usually ask is, “Does she know who you…
Continue ReadingI started writing my mom’s eulogy the other day. Not on paper, but in my head. Nothing has happened. Nothing…
Continue ReadingI got a text from my dad one day that had a picture of two cans of Manwich and he…
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