It is a tragedy to lose the one thing in life, which is ours and ours alone - our memory. The ability to open the book of our own lives only to fumble through missing and blank pages of memories, stories, and experiences we may never be able to recall.

It is a tragedy to lose our sense of self-reliance.
It is a tragedy to lose the recognition of those people nearest and dearest to us in a sea of nameless faces usually reserved for one looking upon a busy street in a city one has never been.
Anyone who has known a person with Alzheimer’s knows first hand the devastating affect it ultimately has on the individual and his or her family.

Likewise, the unkind stares from strangers watching as a person with Parkinson's Disease struggles against his or her own body. They watch in curiosity as it tremors and jitters uncontrollably, or alternately slows almost to a halt, and becomes captive to the ice-like stillness and rigidity of a body frozen in slow motion. The simplest of tasks become almost impossible.
All the while one recalls in complete lucidity a time not long ago, when the same hands and feet they now battle to control, moved with utter grace and steady conviction.

There are 30 million families world wide experiencing Alzheimer's Disease & Parkinson's Disease right now.

You are not an island.
You are not alone in your experiences.

If we all do a little to raise awareness and funds for research,
much can be done.