My Ladybug's Alzheimer's Journey: She Looked Like My Mother But She Did Not Act Like My Mother

My Ladybug’s Alzheimer’s Journey is about the disease that seemed too far removed to imagine it affecting the most important person in my life, my mother. My assumptions changed drastically when Alzheimer took over my mother’s existence in all phases of her life.

My hope for help from the medical profession hit rock bottom when they informed me, “There is no cure for the disease.” It was even more agonizing when I watched my mother mysteriously drifting away from me, disappearing into a wor...