TooTawl

As some of you may know, in June 2010, I lost my father due to complications with Alzheimer's disease. What you may not know is that I also lost my grandfather and a great-grandfather to the same disease. What is real scary is that my dad's 3 brothers do not or did not have this disease. My grandfather's 3 brothers and 2 sisters did not have this stuff. I'm betting my great-grandfather's siblings didn't have it either. Does anyone else see a straight line pointing toward me?

I'll be walking in this year's "Walk to End Alzheiners" to raise money for Alzheinmer's research. This 3 mile walk will be this Saturday on Sept 17, 2011. I'm not going to bore you with all the stats about how many people in the US have this disease. I will tell you this which I did not know until I did this walk last year - There have been cancer survivors. There have been diabetes surviviors. There has NEVER been an Alzheimer's surivior. That woke me up!

Imagine this: You go to visit your dad and he has clue who you are. Yeah, that sucked.

If you would like to donate, Please click on the following link to donate whatever you can online: http://tinyurl.com/4yurxep . If you would rather not donate online, there is a form on the website that you can mail in. Anything will be greatly appreciated. If you have any questions please either send me a message here or email me at tootawl@earthlink.net.

Thanks gang!