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We were both excited to be in DC on a pleasant, sun shiny day and didn't mind waiting a few minutes for Olga to arrive. Olga took off headed in the direction of the nav, and I could almost hear Al screaming in the trunk, "I don't think she knows where she's going! " After we had made several exits, it looked to me like we were closer our hotel located near the zoo that a hotel close to the White House. "We're pretty close to our hotel," I said from the back seat.

I heard the intro to the Johnny Cash version of “Ring of Fire” with its unmistakable mariachi horns. So if we think of love circled with a fiery ring, I believe you could say that nothing could penetrate that ring to destroy the all-consuming love within its circle. It didn’t take long for me to find out that most senators and representatives didn’t know much more about Alzheimer’s disease than the folks back home. We must fund successful research and break through the ring of fire that separates Alzheimer’s disease from a cure.

Jim’s life was cut short by an Alzheimer’s type of dementia—a disease I had never heard of—corticobasal ganglionic degeneration. After he looked at Jim’s autopsy report, his neurologist explained that CBGD is a movement disorder. However, not all people with CBGD have the tau gene variant, and not all people with the variant develop CBGD. Jim passed away in 2005 after ten years of living with CBGD.

As I brought in groceries from my car, I looked like a bag lady. I carried as many bags as I could to cut down on the number of trips from the garage to the kitchen