My mom started showing signs of dementia early in life, around 20 years ago. Learning about Alzheimer's in real time, as she progressed quickly into the disease, was incredibly difficult. Seeing the person you grew up with become a very different person was hard to understand, hard to keep up with and hard to realize that every step in the disease was permanent and my mom, as I knew her, would never return.
Watching her changed me in a few ways. The most positive change is that I started living life differently. I still save and invest, but I also travel and experience the world now rather than "waiting until I retire". My mom never got to realize her retirement dreams. Life happens today,, in this moment, not tomorrow. I learned this through watching my mom as Alzheimer's took away her planned future and impacted her and my family in ways we could not have imagined.
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