Why It’s Okay if Your Heart Is Just A Little Broken This Mother’s Day
Is your heart a little broken this Mother’s Day? My last good visit with my mom was Mother’s Day 2013.
Why I Will Never Stop Grieving the Loss of My Mother to Alzheimer’s Disease
I will never stop grieving the loss of my mother to Alzheimer’s disease. I thought that when my mother died, my grief would soon be over. But I was wrong.
10 Best Children’s Books about Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia
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…
Progression of My Mother’s Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease in Photos
After watching Still Alice with my husband, I wanted to see the progression of my mother’s early onset Alzheimer’s disease in photos. I looked through photos of my mom from old blog posts. I put them in chronological order to create a visual timeline of her decline. People who stopped visiting her during her illness…
The Day I Found My Mother Dead after Alzheimer’s Disease
I will never forget the moment I walked in to find my mother had taken her last breath. I stopped in my tracks on the nursing home’s linoleum floor, asking my father, who was right behind me, “Is she dead?” Slowly, I backed away, up against the wall across from her bed, as I stared…