Alzheimer's Home: A Short Story

On June 24, 2013 I Meagan Foster woke up in my beautiful brick house on 23rd street got dressed and walked throughout my house on this beautiful sunny day laughing at all the pictures hanging on the walls. I let my dog outside to play in the sun and the theshade that the trees provided. When I was done I went into the beautiful big kitchen to eat some breakfast where my husband Eddie was waiting for me. Eddie was an old and layback kind of guy. He surprised me with a picnic in the park for breakfast, and the scene was so gorgeous with all the people walking, birds chirping, and bees buzzing I almost didn’t notice his shoes were untied. I mean everyone forgets things but it is just so unlike him to forget to tie his shoes.
“Why didn’t you tie your shoes?” I questioned.
“Oh thanks I totally forgot,” Remarked Eddie.
He tried everything to tie his shoes but he just couldn’t do it. I finally helped him after fifteen minutes. So after the picnic I got on the internet and looked up things that cause forgetting how to tie your shoe and it came up with Alzheimer’s and it stated, “ Alzheimer’s disease is the
When we got to the doctors they took an xray of his head and did a bunch of other technical stuff. When they returned they gave us the news that Eddie had Alzheimer’s and it felt like my heart shattered into a million pieces. The car ride home was silent, and when we got home Eddie started throwing things and I got on the computer. I looked at so many websites and found so much information like “ More than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s, every 66 seconds someone in the United States develops Alzheimer’s, one in three seniors dies with Alzheimer’s or another dementia, and Alzheimer’s kills more than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined.” (“2017 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures”) I began to cry. Twenty minutes later Eddie walked