Hi all,
My name is Mercede. I am a senior in Elementary Education/Writing Arts program at Rowan University. I chose this program because I really enjoy education and I love to write. Writing is very therapeutic for me and it has always helped me through tough times. My favorite form of writing is poetry. I often write poetry to express my innermost feelings. Writing poetry was the driving force that helped me get through the difficult pain of dealing with my grandmother’s death. My grandmother died of Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 63. I spent most of my early teens watching her suffer the terrible changes that this disease takes its victim through. A once lively person, became almost a vegetable, unable to communicate, use the bathroom on her own and even unable to eat on her own. In this blog, I will discuss the journey that I found myself on while watching her go through this. I plan to provide you with information of how you can recognize the symptoms of this disease, what you can do if your diagnosed, how to help your family cope , and some personal testimony and encouragements to help you understand what it means to be apart of this disease.
