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This is a real-time update from April 2026, nearly a year into our mom Rosemary's early onset Alzheimer's journey. And honestly, the weeks leading up to April 2026 is a lot!

We share some of the specific moments that stopped us in our tracks lately. A medical video she watched with us, cried through, and had absolutely no memory of two weeks later. A store name she's known her whole life that suddenly meant nothing to her. Getting turned around in a parking lot and feeling too ashamed to ask for help. These aren't dramatic moments on their own, but together they're painting a picture that's hard to ignore.

We also get into what it's like to watch someone close to her still not fully grasp where she is right now, the gap between what we're seeing from across the country and what's being acknowledged on the ground, and why that gap is starting to feel urgent in a way it didn't before.

And we talk about driving. Not because we're there yet, but because we're starting to have the conversation with ourselves about when we will be, and what losing that independence is going to mean for her.

No framework. No tidy takeaway. Just an honest conversation about where we actually were at.

In this episode: Alzheimer's progression | early onset Alzheimer's | memory loss | remote caregiving | caregiver support | family dynamics | Alzheimer's caregiver update

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