Jan's Story: Love and Early-Onset Alzheimer's

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Barry Petersen on How the Roadmap of Marriage Is Redrawn by a Disease Affecting Millions for Which There Is No Cure

(CBS) JAN'S STORY is a painful story to tell, particularly for the only man qualified to tell it . . . our own Barry Petersen:

In the 1980s, Jan Chorlton was a promising television reporter. She went on to work for CNN, ABC, even "CBS Sunday Morning."

She was lively, daring, one of those people who celebrated life.

But at only 40 years old, the subtle changes began . . . the lapses in memory.

Five years ago, when she was 55, she received a diagnosis both awful and heartbreaking. Jan had Alzheimer's disease.


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/20/sunday/main6600364.shtml?tag=channelMore;latestLeft


I saw this on "Sunday Morning" today and found it utterly heartbreaking. I'm posting for those that missed it.

[niyad]

1. k and r--I caught the last few minutes of the segment this morning--heartbreaking. I have seen this

stealer of life, of love, of happiness, far too much--what a horror it is.

when he talked of how some might criticize his new life--it made me sick for all those narrow-minded, ignorant, blessed people, who have no idea what life is like when a loved one has dementia.

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