ABOUT AMIE, by Susan Wingate I started blogging about my Mom, Amie, after she moved in with us―after the Alzheimer’s, the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and the schizophrenia nearly killed her
Reverberations: A Daughter’s Meditations on Alzheimer’s, by Marion Agnew On a summer day in 1992, my mother told how, more than forty years earlier, my then-baby brother broke his leg. Then she told
By Annette Januzzi Wick The Missing Link I was never motivated to write about dementia, nor was I motivated to write about my mother, who experienced the disease. But what had been
By Sandra Savell In June of 2006 my husband and I left the outskirts of Washington DC and pulled into Aiken, SC, with all our worldly possessions, two corgis, and with the
By Paula Sarver Mom has Alzheimer’s. It’s one thing to say it, but another to live it and understand it. In 2014, after placing Mom in a memory care facility, I found
By Eleanor Cooney In the third grade, I was kicked out of show-and-tell for three weeks. I told a story that the teacher, Mrs. Fitz, had specifically asked me not to tell.
By Barbara Smith I am an occupational therapist, specializing in developmental disabilities. I had never planned to work in the area of geriatrics. But when my mother developed Alzheimer’s disease, I was
By Susan Cushman “The upside of Alzheimer’s; new mother.” (Smith’s Six-Word Memoirs) My mother, Effie Johnson, was second generation Alzheimer’s. Her mother, Emma Sue (for whom I was named) died from Alzheimer’s
by Vanessa Williams-Harvey It took years of silence for me to come to terms and let it all out. Everything came to an abrupt halt in August of 2015. On that painful
by Jessica Bryan I am a writer. That’s difficult to say when I’m so busy being a caregiver for my mother who is 99 years old and has had Alzheimer’s for 15 years.
