Open Garden Day on The Longest Day, Today, 10am – 4pm

Margaret, my mom, is who we honor today during our “The Longest Day” fundraising event for Alzheimer’s Association. This photo was taken in September 2007, ten years ago, at a Ruby Tuesday’s. I had just left my corporate career to manage mom’s care, and I didn’t know how long this role was going to last. She died 12/24/2008.
Margaret didn’t suffer Alzheimer’s-type degeneration. The type she suffered is called FTD, or Frontotemporal Degeneration. It’s considered by experts to be the most difficult type of dementia in terms of the effects on family members, because it emerges between the ages of 45 and 65, is fast-moving, and very unpredictable. I’m grateful to the Alzheimer’s Association for their free-of-charge services including the 24/7 Helpline and the Care Consultations, which really helped us during this most difficult time.

Join us today! 10am – 4pm, for our Open Garden Day on the Longest Day. Our gardens are optimized for wheelchair-access similar to our Sunday Stroll events. Feel free to bring a bag lunch or snack (carry-in, carry-out). Enjoy smelling the roses, watching fish, birds and butterflies, playing music and dancing… A wheelchair-accessible port-a-potty is available.
Free-will donations will benefit Alzheimer’s Association. We’ll collect all the donations and mail them in as part of the team “Rest.Stop.Ranch Accessible Gardens.” Make your check payable to “Alzheimer’s Association” and you will receive a receipt after processing, for your tax information. Let’s #ENDALZ together.
Donate Online: http://act.alz.org/goto/marymacmissions
Moving forward with a listening heart,
vision, inquiry, and action,
~ Mary