Caregivers, it’s OK to ask for help

“My mom used to say to us, ‘kids if this happens to me, just shoot me.’ She was referring to the Alzheimer’s disease that ravaged her mother, my grandmother. Alzheimer’s turned our Nani into someone we didn’t recognize. It was after one of the more trying bathroom episodes that my mom said, ‘Kids, if this happens to me, just shoot me.’ It did happen, and we didn’t shoot her, but I still hear her voice saying those words.”
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