My mother has dementia, not Alzheimer’s. At least not yet, since Alzheimer’s can’t be determined until someone passes away. I’m of the opinion that my mother has dementia because she was stressed most of her life, a lot of that before I came around. I know few of the details of what gave Mom stressed before I was born, and there’s no one to ask anymore, so I can only talk about that which stressed her once I was born.
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She worried about me, her only child, and continued worrying about me throughout her life (even when I didn’t need it) until she couldn’t worry anymore. She worried about my grandmother, who caught cancer four times, beat it every time, but the last time made her extremely weak. She worried about my dad as he was in the military, and it turns out with good reason. I just found out a few months ago that he’d actually been shot in both Korea and Vietnam; she didn’t know him when he was in Korea but did while he was in Vietnam.
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