2009 Alzheimer's Memory Walk
Jul. 14th, 2009 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spookyeviloneThis, unlike most things in this blog, is something not funny, snide, or sarcastic. I don't recall ever hitting up my audience for cash before, but I consider this cause worthwhile and will be pimping it on every presence I have on the intardnetzweb.
I'm participating in the 2009 Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk.
My mother suffers from a degenerative brain condition very like Alzheimer's, though hers was due to uncontrolled diabetes. Her brain is, at this point, oatmeal. She is nonverbal, incontinent, and mostly non-responsive. There is nothing anyone can do but watch and wait for her body to die, and that could take another 20 years. It has been.. for lack of a sufficiently awful word.. horrible.
I'm joining the Walk because the Association has many programs to help both individuals suffering from Alzheimer's and the families forced to watch the decline of their loved one as this progressive, degenerative disease slowly erodes their mind. (The mind of the victim or the mind of the family - take your pick. I know for my part, it's made me pretty damn crazy with frustration, watching my mother slip away and knowing there's nothing anyone can do to halt it.)
Please contribute to my efforts in the Walk, if you have the funds to spare. My goal is to raise $750.
Click Here to Donate
My personal Walk page - Canadian motif because la Mama is.
I'm participating in the 2009 Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk.
My mother suffers from a degenerative brain condition very like Alzheimer's, though hers was due to uncontrolled diabetes. Her brain is, at this point, oatmeal. She is nonverbal, incontinent, and mostly non-responsive. There is nothing anyone can do but watch and wait for her body to die, and that could take another 20 years. It has been.. for lack of a sufficiently awful word.. horrible.
I'm joining the Walk because the Association has many programs to help both individuals suffering from Alzheimer's and the families forced to watch the decline of their loved one as this progressive, degenerative disease slowly erodes their mind. (The mind of the victim or the mind of the family - take your pick. I know for my part, it's made me pretty damn crazy with frustration, watching my mother slip away and knowing there's nothing anyone can do to halt it.)
Please contribute to my efforts in the Walk, if you have the funds to spare. My goal is to raise $750.
Click Here to Donate
My personal Walk page - Canadian motif because la Mama is.