Category Archives: Our Stories
My Demented Mom in the Sacramento Bee… “We don’t have survivors.”
The Sacramento Bee interviewed me for a story about early-onset Alzheimer’s… the piece ran last week. Not sure how much attention or awareness I brought to the issue, but hopefully, my tiny part in this story will get more people … Continue reading →
Guest Blogger: My Boyfriend
My boyfriend Jon talks about meeting my mom… funny to read his story, because in some ways, it’s very different than mine, which you can check out below: The week leading up to the big meet. The meeting… postmortem. Jon’s … Continue reading →
Gag Reflex
Good news. I discovered something new about myself. Poop makes me gag. I’m OK with cat poop and I’ve never really experienced baby poop—although, I imagine that mothers have some built-in mechanism to prevent them from vomiting all over their … Continue reading →
Filed under Alzheimer's Disease, At the End of the Day..., Behaviors, Coping, Dementia (the umbrella), Frontotemporal Dementia, Great, Now What?, Our Father (or my dad), Our Stories, Random, Real Life, Et Cetera
Tagged as Alzheimer's Disease, Behaviors, caregiving, Death, Dementia (the umbrella), Frontotemporal dementia, kathy ritchie, Life, odd behaviors, poop, tragedy
