Lauren Flake - Grief & TexasI lost my mother to early onset Alzheimer’s disease when she was 59.
Dear Mom, You weren’t supposed to leave me so soon. I’ve had to do everything without you. You weren’t supposed to leave me so soon. I’ve had a miscarriage. I’ve had two babies. And I’ve had two surgeries. I’ve watched my brother fight addiction. I’ve watched my dad remarry. And I’ve planned funerals. I’ve written […]
The final stage of grief lasts forever. My mother has been dead for 10 years. But I’ve been grieving her loss for over 15 years. My grief process started back in 2006 with my mother’s early onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis. The final stage of grief lasts forever. I will never stop grieving the loss of my […]
My mother needed us to love her until the end of Alzheimer’s disease. My grandmother took this photo of my mother, my husband, and me over a decade ago. It was Thanksgiving Day, six months after my mother’s initial diagnosis with early onset Alzheimer’s disease. And it was seven years before the end of Alzheimer’s […]
Ten years ago today, I walked into my mother’s room in the nursing home, carrying a cookies and cream milkshake. (I was pregnant, after all.) I found her finally at peace. Today, I’m remembering my mother’s death after Alzheimer’s disease. Anniversary of My Mother’s Death after Alzheimer’s Even after 4 days of waiting and watching […]
Is your heart a little broken this Mother’s Day? My last good visit with my mom was Mother’s Day 2013. My brother and I went to see our mother together in the nursing home. She had been living there for the last five years of her life. She was lost in the late stages of early […]