Lauren Flake - Grief & TexasI lost my mother to early onset Alzheimer’s disease when she was 59.
For a few seconds, my dead grandmother was right there next to me shopping for plants. I was walking through the garden center of H-E-B Plus on a particularly muggy August afternoon. I was leisurely picking out plants and loading them onto my cart, despite the heat. My dead grandmother was right there next to […]
I’m learning how to breathe. Literally and figuratively. After tongue tie release surgery, I’m finally learning how to breathe. It turns out I breathed and swallowed incorrectly for 36 years. My new dentist immediately noticed my posterior tongue tie. She referred me to an amazing myofunctional therapist. The therapist taught me how to breathe and […]
I will never stop grieving the loss of my mother to Alzheimer’s disease. I thought that when my mother died and was freed from her earthly suffering, my grief would soon be over. After all, I felt that I had really been grieving since her Alzheimer’s diagnosis. I had already lost her, a little more […]
Before I had babies, the last diaper I changed was my mother’s. She entered hospice care when I was pregnant with my first daughter and passed away, almost two years later, when I was pregnant with my second daughter. Despite the grief and struggle, taking care of my mom as her health declined through early onset Alzheimer’s disease prepared […]
Are you searching for children’s books about Alzheimer’s disease and dementia to read with your kids? You’re in the right place. I’ll never forget my first exposure to Alzheimer’s disease. I was nine. Unbeknownst to me, an elderly woman with dementia picked up my book. She then took it to her room during my Girl […]