Tag: An Angel Flew to Heaven Today by Daniel Mark Extrom
Walk to End Alzheimer’s More Walks to End Alzheimer’s are scheduled for the upcoming weekends. Walk. Donate what you can. Click here to Walk or Donate You already know someone with this disease—a family member; a friend; it might even be you, though you don’t know it. When you forget something, do […]
Alzheimer’s Disease Affects So Many Families Sunday, September 21, 2014, a Walk to End Alzheimer’s will occur at North Central College, Benedetti-Wehrli Stadium. There are other walks in the Chicago area in the near future as well. See the link below for walks in Schaumburg, Libertyville, Glenview, Chicago, Joliet,Lake in the Hills, and Harrisburg, IL. […]
Alzheimer’s/Dementia: A New Epidemic? Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia are affecting more and more families all the time. Talk to anyone, and they will have a family member with it, or they will know someone with it. It’s terrible to see the toll that this takes on an individual. It’s terrible to see the toll […]
A Poem for an Angel, for Marie The other day I posted a poem written in honor of my mother-in-law, Marie. After struggling with Alzheimer’s Disease for over ten years, she finally passed one week ago at age 93. And she really was an angel – kind, patient, considerate, caring – everything one could […]
A Poem for an Angel For Marie Our family lost someone very special this week. Marie was 93 years old. She is identified in the obituary (that’s kind of an icky sounding word, don’t you think?) as the wife of Louis, mother of Ernest, Louis and Jean, and Nana of seven grandchildren. But, of course, […]
