The Closing of the Window, My Nana's Fight with Alzheimer's Disease | Alzheimer's Awareness Month
📝 In my second semester in college, I wrote a paper for my ENGL 1302 class about my #Nana and her battle with #Alzheimers . I knew a little bit about it while she was dealing with the disease but since I was only 14 years old when she passed away I didn't know what could have caused it. I threw myself into this paper and almost didn't think of anything else for weeks and weeks. #TeepaSnow and her videos helped me understand the disease and were a great resource for this project I'm sharing with the world. 📌 My Nana was my Nana. She was fierce. She was smart. She was brave. But even with all of her amazing qualities, #Alzheimer 's #Disease still found a way to steal her from us like chiseling at the stone, taking her piece by piece until she was a shell of the person she once was. In this video, I talk about what I believe could have caused her dementia, some of the early signs she had, and how my family handled taking care of her. 📌 My hope for this video is to...