Walking Laura Home: A Journey of Hope - Tapa blanda

When Karl’s grown children, Matthew and Sarah, left home, he was looking forward to a slower pace of life. Karl and Laura, his wife of thirty-seven years, were closer than ever. He couldn’t have chosen a better woman to grow old with. She was still beautiful, and they shared a love of the simple pleasures of life. When Laura began to have cognitive difficulties, Karl was alarmed, but initially wrote it off as stress. After all, Laura’s parents had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for several years, and she was helping to care for them. Karl encouraged Laura to quit working, and assumed that she would bounce back after a well-deserved rest. But as time went on, Laura began to exhibit behavior that was eerily similar to that of her dying parents. Slowly, over the course of a year, it dawned on Karl that his wife had contracted the same disease that would take both of her parents. The medical community was initially unable to diagnose her, and friends and family were skeptical; Karl alone knew the dark truth. In time, the others would, too.