Hannah Brice Smith
Bio
I am a middle aged mom, nurse, wife, grandmother. I have worked in cancer for 20+ years. My blogs are usually about healing from grief, living with cancer, caring for aging parent w/Alzheimer’s, hope, faith and joy....
Stories (2/0)
Alzheimer’s...
My mom was diagnosed at 70 with Alzheimer’s Disease. I was a nurse, my mom was a nurse, her father a surgeon... medicine ran in our blood. So did the disease. Mom remembers her Aunt Ruth having Alzheimer’s. Mom was tested and found to have the Alzheimer’s gene that demonstrates an increased probability of the diagnosis. This was after I found her. I found her at the fairgrounds. She and my dad had taken some of their grandchildren to the fair and she had returned to her car to gather her rain coat. My husband and I were arriving later and found her wandering the large lot. I rolled down my window and asked what she was doing.
By Hannah Brice Smith5 years ago in Families
Grief... the Monster Taming Begins
Grief is a monster. It all relates to a death. Physical, spiritual, emotional. A piece of you dies with each loss. A break up with a person you dated may carry the same weight for you as another person losing their partner to death. It all depends on what you’ve invested in that entity. It is incomprehensible… grief is. Unimaginable, unexplainable, perhaps even unbelievable… but not unresolvable.
By Hannah Brice Smith5 years ago in Humans
