The Only Memory Even Alzheimer’s Cannot Erase

The power of love

Joan Gershman
Crow’s Feet
Published in
4 min readMar 3, 2023

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She’s delusional, I told everyone. She wants to believe it so badly that she has imagined it. It was June 2004, two years before my husband was officially diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease, and because I had watched TV programs and read magazine articles about it, I thought I knew most of what there was to know about Alzheimer’s Disease.

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Joan Gershman
Crow’s Feet

2 X TOP WRITER; Retired Educator; Speech/Language Therapist; English Teacher; thealzheimerspouse.com; talktimewithjoan.com; Medium.com writer; Vocal Writer