Have fun for a good cause: Alzheimer’s Memory Walk Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 8:00 a.m.

I set a personal goal for myself of entering and completing a 5K walk (notice I said WALK, not RACE) by the end of the year. This is after I met my personal challenge of 10 minutes on the cross trainer and ½ mile on the treadmill, which was a huge accomplishment (if you are a true athlete this may sound really like a small goal, but believe me it was huge for me.) I hope you are proud as I am!! This was a huge thing for me! I got out from behind my desk and got MOVING! My official advice to you if you are a client or thinking about being a client is -JUST DO IT. This is my soapbox, or one of them.

Alzheimer’s Memory Walk Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 8:00 a.m. :

I decided to do the Alzheimer's Memory Walk, this weekend.

My mom has dementia. Mostly she knows who we are although she gets our names mixed up. She can still read. For a long time she could hardly talk but now she seems chatty and conversational, in a disjointed kind of way, since her meds were changed from Namenda to Aricept. Why, of course, the physicians don't know.

I love my mother so much, I am going to call her up and tell her what I am doing this Saturday. I hope she can understand me – probably not. But that is ok, she knows I love her and am thinking about her every day.

The folks at the Alzheimer's association are really great with me when I asked them about it, and it is something that is really important, so I am going to show up at La Grave baseball field, where the CATS play baseball in Fort Worth, to register at 8 a.m. this Saturday, October 17.


If you would care to join me, come at 8 a.m. to La Grave field to sign up! There is no registration fee but contributions are welcome. It is in Fort Worth on North Main in La Grave field, where the Fort Worth CATS play ball. You simply drive north on North Main Street and turn right on 6th at the entrance to the ball park. There will be plenty of signs. If you run out of gas, I am assured they have golf carts to bring you back to your car, so it is the perfect place to get started exercising with some wonderful people and have some fun.

For information call: Kelli at 817-336-4949, or send an email to wendy.rebecek@alz.org.