“Alzheimer’s Disease. Alzheimer’s Disease. Alzheimer’s Disease!” . 113Alzheimer’s Disease, Suicide, and Death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Am I Half Empty or Half Full?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104Am I My Brain? Or Is My Brain Me? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117Am I to Be My Spouse’s Son? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189And the Name of the 3,000-Pound Elephant Is “Fear”. . . . . . . . . . 91Back to the Future. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Best Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241The Chase for Yesterday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75Checking Back in During the Intermission: What’s It Like to Have Alzheimer’s?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Christina, Mrs. Hippopotamus, and Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Cogito Ergo Sum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Disabling Enablers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67A Distinction Without a Difference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158Do No Harm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232“Don’t Worry About Anything . . . We’ll Take Care of It.” . . . . . . 211Dreams, Drugs, Alzheimer’s, and Me. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Drifting Away From My Head and into My Heart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128The End of Act One . . . And Now, an Intermission of Indeterminate Length. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Falling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130FAQs and FGAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29The Flesh Is Weak(er), but My Spirit Is (Still) Strong . . . . . . . . . 108Four No Trump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38From My Heart to My M.D.’s Ears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226“Give Me Your Money, Your Car, and . . . ” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181Good Habits and Mindless Patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Hanging On with My Tongue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172Have You Ever Participated in One of These Conversations? . . . 194Hello? I’m Still Here! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152Hemingway, Alzheimer, and Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Here! Take This! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199I Am a Verb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84“I Can Read!” “I Can’t.” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97“I Have Been Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease” . . . . . . . . . . . . 51I Wish I Were a Nude Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49If I Were an M. Instead of a Ph. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223If It Talks Like an It and Gets Lost Like an It, Is It an It?. . . . . . . 148Is It Okay to Say You Have a “Touch” of Alzheimer’s? . . . . . . . . . 196

It’s On the Tip of My Tongue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Jesus, Albert, Alzheimer’s and Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3“Knock, Knock” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124Moving From Living with My Mind to Living in My Mind . . . . . . . 89Muddled Puddles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156My Champion or My Hero? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163My Last Six Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26My Shirt Is Broken. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101“Oh, I’ve Done That Myself a Million Times” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69“Oh My God! Where’s Richard?” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184Okay? Okay! Okay.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192Once Again, My Children Believe They Know More Than I Do.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166Plants as Pets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179“Play It Again, Caregivers” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161Pride Precedes the Fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79Religion, Spirituality, Alzheimer’s, and Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175Safe and Sound . . . Unsound and Safe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82Sex, Side Effects, Alzheimer’s, and Intimacy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169Should We Do unto Others What We Perceive They Have Already Done unto Us?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215A Silent, One-Sided Conversation with My Caregivers . . . . . . . . . 174Sing-a-long with Alois and Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99A Stranger in a Strange Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150There Is No Such Thing as Alzheimer’s Disease! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6There Is Something (More) Wrong with Dad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204They Are Glad They Caught It Early. Am I? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18This Little Light of Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186Time to Clean Up Your Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207Trying to Figure It Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Volcanoes, Fears, and Alzheimer’s Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Waiting for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65“We Have a Pill. Alzheimer’s Can Be Treated!”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41What Is It Like Not to Have Alzheimer’s Disease? . . . . . . . . . . . . 202What Is It Like to Have Alzheimer’s Disease? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15What Is It Like to Have Alzheimer’s Disease—Three Years Later . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35What Is It Like to Live in Purgatory? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13What Will I Do Today? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126What’s the Up Side to Having Alzheimer’s Disease? . . . . . . . . . . . 77Whatever Happened to Hope?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87When Most All Has Been Said . . . Little Has Been Done . . . . . . 218While Rome Burns . . . A Parable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Whose Fault Is It That I Don’t Understand You? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Will the Real Dr. Alzheimer Please Stand Up? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110Will the Real Richard Taylor Ever Reveal Himself to Me? . . . . . . 133