The A word

I deal with things by researching them. After the flurry of phone calls began, I hit the internet and library.

It's Alzheimer's.

I feel like the word itself is horrid. I can barely say it. It is the word that we do not say. I don't actually say the word to anyone but my husband. Give me almost anything else.

Give me a disease that is treatable. That we can valiantly battle with medication. Give me something that we can fight.

But Alzheimer's. To me, it is almost worse than a death sentence.

It makes the person you love slowly disappear into a shadow of them self. And there is no weapon that you can use to disarm it.

It is a losing battle.