World Alzheimer's Awareness Month

It is World Alzheimer's Awareness month in September. I have done 2 interviews already this month at the request of my local Alzheimer's Association Chapter. One was for an article to appear next week in our daily paper and the other was a TV interview for the news last night. That one was on short notice because they had covered that there were volunteers including me downtown handing out purple carnations for Alzheimer's awareness and they wanted to interview someone diagnosed. Here is a LINK to the story. It has been a very busy month so far and it seems that September is always a busy month between activities to do with Alzheimer's and family events it gets crazy. Sometimes it gets exhausting but it also gives me a purpose when I can do some advocating and trying to educate people that we are still people, each one of us unique with a terminal disease. Not so different than any other disease, it is just that this one is destroying our brains bit by bit so it is unusually cruel. There is no reason for fear however or to avoid the subject, or to not ask someone diagnosed how they are doing. It is a general consensus that when you are early stage it seems wrong to ignore the elephant in the room but it is amazing how many people do just that.