Remembering parent's life

[wackyjacky1]

Every year this time my sisters and I volunteer for the Alzheimer's Association's Memory Walk in her honor.

Same here. It is such a worthy cause. Ours is Oct. 11 this year.

[DebTX]

Thank you all for sharing these beautiful stories. This has been a very moving thread for me to read.

Deb

[Aggie_Ama]

Same here. It is such a worthy cause. Ours is Oct. 11 this year.

Thank you both. I lost my Great Grandma Ellen to the illness in 1989. She lived a full 88 years before the lights went out and luckily I was too young to really experience it. I was 8 when she died that hot July. All I remember is going to Wynn's (old general/ drug store) to get a bathing suit to swim at the old Lake House.

My Nanny has recently been diagnosed and it is so hard. She sometimes doesn't remember I am her granddaughter (I am often a niece). My dad she calls by his father's name. One day she didn't remember where my Pawpaw was (buried). I will do our walk/run next fall for my Nanny. I hate to say this but I hope her failing heart takes her before her mind can truly be taken. But I am not ready for either of those things, she seems so young but she is 76.