My name is Kathy, and this blog is about my mother and our family's journey with with her through Alzheimer's Disease. Let me tell you, we're only a few months into it, and it's truly a trip.
I have three brothers who are at present doing what they can to step up and help with mom's daily living, and I am planning to retire from my job at the University at Buffalo in order to move back to Meadville PA to take my part. I'm sorry to lose the job, I enjoy what I do at UB. I'm sorry, too, to sell my sweet little condo where I've been content for many years. But I'm blessed to be able to do these things so that I can help my mom walk this difficult path.
Early in 2009, my brothers and I began to notice that mom was a little "off". She was forgetting where she had put her purse/keys/shoes/gloves/head. Other signs appeared gradually. She started to opt out of hosting family gatherings. Her cooking skills diminished. She had minor a fender bender. Then another. And finally the one that led to her diagnosis. I got the story secondhand from my brother that she had bumped into another car and then left the scene. The police were called by a witness and they caught up with her at another location. Shortly after that, brother Tom made an appointment with her to see her physician, who did some light testing, made a referral to a neurologist, and told her that she shouldn't continue to drive. More tomorrow!
I have three brothers who are at present doing what they can to step up and help with mom's daily living, and I am planning to retire from my job at the University at Buffalo in order to move back to Meadville PA to take my part. I'm sorry to lose the job, I enjoy what I do at UB. I'm sorry, too, to sell my sweet little condo where I've been content for many years. But I'm blessed to be able to do these things so that I can help my mom walk this difficult path.
Early in 2009, my brothers and I began to notice that mom was a little "off". She was forgetting where she had put her purse/keys/shoes/gloves/head. Other signs appeared gradually. She started to opt out of hosting family gatherings. Her cooking skills diminished. She had minor a fender bender. Then another. And finally the one that led to her diagnosis. I got the story secondhand from my brother that she had bumped into another car and then left the scene. The police were called by a witness and they caught up with her at another location. Shortly after that, brother Tom made an appointment with her to see her physician, who did some light testing, made a referral to a neurologist, and told her that she shouldn't continue to drive. More tomorrow!
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