Alzheimer’s

Watch this.

Seriously.  It’s a brilliant and heartbreaking bit of film.

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Once upon a time, there was a lovely woman named Harriet.   She adored her grown children, her young grandchildren, her Pomeranian and her potted petunias.   She went for walks in the neighborhood nearly every day, stopping to chat with neighbors.   An extensive book collection lined the walls of her house, and she claimed to have read every one of them. 

At sixty-four, she was educated, financially savvy, and active.

She was also scared.

When she woke up in the mornings, she didn’t always remember what day of the week it was.  Always proud of her intellect, she’d started struggling to follow the science programs she loved to watch. She’d been feeling moody, she’d lost her keys 3 times  in the last week, and more worrisome, just today, she’d put a casserole in the oven and forgotten about it entirely. 

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