I first saw Carol in 1969 when I moved to Erie Colorado to start a new job in Boulder. Carol moved in the apartment next door to me three weeks later. After first seeing this lovely lady I knew somehow that I was going to marry her. I finally met her three months later and we were married a year later. Happiest day of my life. We had a great life together, two wonderful children, and we did everything together.
In 2008 Carol started showing signs of memory loss and in 2010 Carol and I were told she showed signs of Alzheimer’s.
In 2012 I retired from working to stay home full time with Carol. The next four years were very hard on Carol. In 2016 we were forced to sell our home of over twenty-five years and move to an apartment with an elevator because of the Dementia and Alzheimer’s. Carol was forced to be in a wheelchair a short time later.
Carol passed away while we were living in the apartment.
In 2008 I took an early retirement from my work in Golden,Colorado where I worked for thirty-seven years. After hearing the horrible news about Alzheimer’s I wanted to spend as much time with Carol as possible, not know how much time we would have together. Four months later I received more bad news that my former employer suspended all insurance for us because of our ages. I found employment at a local health care facility that had great insurance. I hired a home health service to come to my home two to four days per week while I was working my new job. At that time the Alzheimer’s had not progressed enough where Carol could not be alone at home. The insurance was great and I learned more about Alzheimer’s from doctors and I was able to work with residents with Alzheimer’s living at the facility.
This is why “RIDE TO END ALZHEIMER’S” is so important to me. To help bring Alzheimer’s treatment to affected families sooner. Money raised from this bike ride will help the Alzheimer’s association with innovative drug trials designed to reduce the time it takes to go from lab to pharmacy. 100% of all funds “YOU” help me raise will go toward the Associations’s efforts to discover methods of treatment and prevention.
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