early onset alzheimers

Alzheimer’s is a disease of loss. You lose them, piece by piece, until one day you realize they don’t know who you are. Every morning, I wake her up, and she looks at me with fear because she doesn’t recognize me. I have to win her trust anew each day.

We raised our kids, put our three kids through 12 years of college and then finally said, ‘okay, now we're done with college!’ It was like we built our life up to raise our children, pay for them to go to college, and we were on the same page, expecting a new phase of life together. And then we found out about his early Alzheimer’s diagnosis.