MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Carrie Richardson knows what she faces after being diagnosed with Early Onset Familial Alzheimer’s.
She has seen her father die from the disease. And uncles. Her cousin.
And while she watches as her older brother exhibit the signs of the disease, the 34-year-old single mother of three children knows her time is near.
She brushes off having put liquid coffee creamer in the pantry instead of the refrigerator, and says she has been told on the phone that she has repeated questions.
“I don’t make excuses for myself, because I know as well as anybody that I can’t do that,” said Richardson, who lives in Montgomery. “But people want to say, ‘Oh, well, everybody does that.’