Source: http://blog.alz.org/walking-for-the-first-survivor-of-alzheimers/
2016 marks the 5th year I have walked in Walk to End Alzheimer’s. This year, I was lucky to walk with friends and family, but there is one person I wish could walk with me – and I simultaneously realize that if she was here, I wouldn’t have the same compelling reason to walk. That person is my mom.
When I was 15, my mom was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s at the age of 50.
The once bold and fiercely independent woman I knew quickly became a stranger to me. At first it was the little things, like forgetting to pick me up from school, or getting confused on a drive home from the airport. Then one day when I was 16, she looked me in the eye and asked: “What’s your name again?”
The day of my graduation, my mom refused to get ready, insisting that the clothin…
Source: http://blog.alz.org/walking-for-the-first-survivor-of-alzheimers/
2016 marks the 5th year I have walked in Walk to End Alzheimer’s. This year, I was lucky to walk with friends and family, but there is one person I wish could walk with me – and I simultaneously realize that if she was here, I wouldn’t have the same compelling reason to walk. That person is my mom.
When I was 15, my mom was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s at the age of 50.
The once bold and fiercely independent woman I knew quickly became a stranger to me. At first it was the little things, like forgetting to pick me up from school, or getting confused on a drive home from the airport. Then one day when I was 16, she looked me in the eye and asked: “What’s your name again?”
The day of my graduation, my mom refused to get ready, insisting that the clothin…
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