Author Fawn Germer: Why Alzheimer's is the Long Goodbye

Author Fawn Germer writes about "Why They Call it The Long Goodbye" on the Huffington Post. Those of us with a loved one in the grasp of this dreadful disease can probably relate to her words:

I wonder what it is like for her, trapped in so much nothingness. Does she feel the slowness of time passing? What is she thinking? Is she thinking anything? Is she fighting to stay alive, or is she too lost to let go? I am so confused. I hurt for her.

Read all of Germer's essay.