Life with Alzheimer's

I promised I'd tie this all up with a nice little bow. It's been hard. I don't really know what to say. It's taken me seven months to write this. Parts of it have been in my head but I wasn't sure what I wanted to say or how to even say it. Alzheimer's and my mom's care and then unexpectedly, my dad's were the center of my world for nearly 7 years, dad for 2 of those. I always worried about her but having them move back here from Ohio in November of 2015 meant I was responsible for her, for them, especially once dad got sick! Shit got real then. I was really in charge and making decisions I don't think I thought I'd ever have to make for them. I don't think I grasped at that time the magnitude of what I was about to take on or how much it would effect me, my family, my life. From 2020 until 2023 that was my entire focus, at times almost a full time job in addition to everything else. How did I even function - working, parenting, caregiving? I...