[t-tom]

I was raised by my grandparents I lived with them part time from when I was 2 and then when my Dad passed away whenI was 10 I lived with them full time. My grandmother was already starting to show signs of Alzheimer in 1983 when I moved in full time. It was embarrassing to me, she wouldn't remember my friends names or what we where doing. We'd go to the store and she wouldn't bring any money. As the years past and she slowly got worse and worse it was hard for me to spend time around her, she wasn't who I remembered, she didn't know who I was or anyone for that matter. After we moved her into a full time care facility I went to see her as much as I could a few times a week and slowly just like you I stopped going often because it tore me up inside. Then I stopped going all together again because it tore me up inside. Well I didn't see her for the last year of her life and that now tares me up inside.