Lauren Flake - Grief & Texas
Is your heart a little broken this Mother’s Day? My last good visit with my mom was Mother’s Day 2013. My brother and I went to see our mother together in the nursing home. She had been living there for the last five years of her life. She was lost in the late stages of early […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]