You Can Love Someone Completely and Still Reach the Edge

Somewhere in the dark of a sleepless night, I realized something I never thought possible.

Alzheimer’s could take me before it took Lee.

I couldn’t remember the last time I had taken care of my own health.

Not an annual physical. Not vaccines. Not the preventive care that had once been second nature to both of us. Those things had simply disappeared, crowded out by everything the disease required, and I hadn’t really thought about it until that…