Walk for Alzheimer's Awareness Fund-raising01:57 Sep 29 2011
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Ok. I feel strange putting my hand out and asking for money - I'm lousy at fund-raising. That being said - I am going to post this now and again in October so it stays fairly visible in my journal.
On October 15th, I am going to be doing a short fund-raising Walk to benefit the Alzheimer's Association.
My goal, I believe, is a modest one - to raise $1,000. I think I can get it done.
Click here if you'd care to donate. Any amount would be greatly appreciated.
See ... this issue hits home deeply for me.
My mother had Alzheimer's.
For the last ten years of her life, I was her foster-sister Betty. I was fine with that - she liked Betty. I did get to see coherence shining out of that woman's eyes the night before she died though, so that was a beautiful memory to take with me. It was Valentine's evening, and for a rarity, my father, my brother Joe and I all were able to work schedules to visit at the same time (she'd had a heart attack, and was in the hospital). We brought her dozens of red roses. She rubbed her face in the flowers, looked at us and said, "I know you!" - and she did. She died much later that night, but ... I had my mom for a while that evening again.
Alzheimer's is an insidious disease. It is a thief. It is a liar. It is a destroyer of people, and turns your mothers, fathers, lovers, friends, sisters and brothers into "The Creature Who Once Was My (fill in the blank)."
It is evil.
If nothing else - please take the time to educate yourself about the disease - about ways you can maybe lend a hand in your own communities.
I am going to plagiarize MLK here when I say - I have a dream - but my dream is that Alzheimer's research will be effective. That a delay, a cure, a halt, an end - something - may be found.
That no one else has to look and think, "That used to be my husband."
To learn more about Alzheimer's, click Here - for the Alzheimer's Association Website.
If you should be so kind as to assist my fund-raising efforts, you may click here.
Thank you. Thank you even for just reading to the end of this.
COMMENTS
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captainglobehead
18:47 Sep 29 2011
And what is in "the deep end"?
Requiem
12:25 Sep 30 2011
I don't know - yet! I AM curious, though. o.o
Vampirewitch39
23:45 Sep 30 2011
It best be a pool... dang it.