Our lives turned upside down in 2005 when my dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Six years later, I left my career and my life in Washington DC and moved in with my parents in Atlanta, Georgia to be Dad’s and eventually Mom's primary caregiver. And thus began the hardest journey of my life.
A myriad of books have been written on the stages of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. But I needed a “rubber meets the road” manual to know how to care for my parents and not lose my sanity. I made mountains of mistakes, cried buckets of tears and prayed countless prayers. And I learned that the quickest way to get relief was to find out what God’s Word had to say about every situation. This is how I survived for 12 years.
I am not an expert. I’m just a daughter who loved her parents and wanted them to live out their last years with as much freedom and quality of life as possible. This website and my forthcoming book are filled with some of those lessons I learned to encourage caregivers. So If what I learned will help you, then it will all have been worth it.
If I were to tell you a story about a good guy diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, chances are, you probably wouldn’t want to hear it. If I told you a story about a good guy diagnosed with cancer, that story you may be more likely to hear. Why?
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