This blog is about life with my husband who was diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer's and Frontal Lobe Dementia in 2008. He was 64 at the time although now, knowing more about the disease, Alzheimer's was present many, many years ago, which is why early detection is so important. As you read the blog the character "Al" that I created in 2008, represents the way that Alzheimer's is invading our daily lives.
There is an archive tab further down the page that starts from the beginning of our journey.

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Living with Bob and "Al"

Sometimes Sheri pretends, in her head the "Al" is Bob. It is probably not even a conscious thing, Sheri was trying to put screws in Bob's birdhouses to the hang the last few, and when she couldn't get the screw to back out that went in crooked with drill, Bob was standing close by. He said "oh here let me do that for you". Bob was the all around handy man and he managed a hardware store in his last career so this task was second nature to him. So with what she thought was glimpse of the Bob she married, Sheri handed him the drill. "Al" looked at the drill in Bob's hand and turning it side to side said "How does this work?"
The handy is definitely gone out of the man. :(


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