Being a caregiver changes everything. That’s the first hard lesson Renee Brown Harmon learned when her husband Harvey was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s in 2010 at age 50.
“Everything changes,” Harmon said. “My brain was always on what I needed to do, what Harvey needed to do.”
At the time, Harmon was also a working physician and raising two teenage daughters.
“It’s like mom brain, where you’re trying to corral your kids and know what all your kids are doing. It was just that on steroids,” Harmon said, “because not only was I thinking about what my kids needed to do, I was thinking about Harvey all the time.”…