I am passionate about shedding light on Frontotemporal Dementia and all of its characteristics. I thought I was going mad in my relationship with my husband. Everyone thought he was fine, just so sweet, and could not understand why I was continually out of sorts with his behavior.

His disguise was his niceness. The disease hid behind his niceness. His lack of emotions was not only frustrating but unreal. Never having an opinion about raising our boys was lonesome. I could not understand how he could go into work each day and conduct business and then come home and completely turn off.

All throughout this journey he thought he was fine which made it even more frustrating. After much strife, battles, separation, therapy and horrible words spoken I now know why.

I know there are others out there that are going through what I went through. It is those people that bring me to forming this team, raising money and telling my story. Nobody should have to go through what I went through. If only I knew more.

Please help me raise the necessary funds to find a solution to this cunning and devastating disease. Please join my team either by donating or walking or both. The Alzheimer's Association has been instrumental in helping me get through this ordeal.

Side note: My husband went through a lot also; the loss of a job that he dearly loved, his golf game, friends, his walking ability and his independence. He now resides in a beautiful Assisted Living residential home (Granny's Place). He is under the care of hospice. His "niceness" is still with him. Thank God for that.