I don’t plan on posting much personal stuff on this weblog, but I haven’t posted anything else besides my first post and I wanted to explain why. My grandmother died last week. She was a really wonderful person and influenced me quite a bit growing up. I knew her as Nonnie.
It was hard watching someone so intelligent go through the stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Seeing her for the last time a week or so before she died was one of the hardest experiences I’ve ever had. She was a fighter though, and even within the past year she was still pretty damn sharp when I saw her.
This is really the first time as an adult that I’ve experienced death first hand. It took a while for the sadness and loss to really hit me, but now I realize the significance of it. I’m really going to miss her.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune (our local paper) wrote up an article about her for the obituaries section.
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Maricela // June 9, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Sorry for your loss…I lost my father to Alzheimers on May 26th. He was diagnosed almost 20 years ago but we knew a few years before he was diagnosed that something was wrong. He was diagnosed at age 57. It is such a devistating disease. My father spoke his last words about 7 years ago. He went peacefully though…
I completely understand your pain.
Peter // June 12, 2008 at 4:08 am
Thanks for sharing your story, and I’m sorry to hear about your father. 57 seems so young to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. I can’t even begin to imagine how difficult that was.
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