MissBert

Once upon a time, I had a dad. Just like the title of this blog. And yes, when I started the blog, my dad was still physically with me. But the second someone is diagnosed with dementia, it's as if they start very slowly moving down a tunnel away from you. I knew nothing about Alzheimer's at that po...
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Best Alzheimer's Blogs forensicscience.net Just won another award for this blog. Except that they think I'm a guy for some reason. Had a Dad The impetus of this blog was simple to provide a space for a son whose father was struggling with Alzheimer's. His father has recently passed on, yet he contin...
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The final tally of how much I raised with my tag sale and related donations is 270. That includes a 50 check a guy brought, and a few other cash-in-the-jar donations. I was hoping for twice that. But it's better than nothing. I ended up NOT taking the money I spent on the ad back, because the total ...
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You know it is a slow news day when they put ME on the front page of the paper, above the fold. The electronic link contains basically the same text as the print article, with a different title Blog chronicled woman's dad's experience with Alzheimer's Posted Thursday, June 2, 2011 1017 pm Russell Bl...
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Last week I sent a brief email to the paper, telling them shamelessly how I am a top-ranked, syndicated, award-winning blogger about Alzheimer's and I'm having a huge tag sale this weekend and giving the money to charity. And they called me yesterday. Interviewed me today. I tried to come up with so...
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