Is Alzheimer’s disease Hell on Earth..or the path to Heaven?…. By Bob DeMarco Alzheimer’s Reading Room There is no blame in Heaven. No blaming Alzheimer’s. No blaming the person that has Alzheimer’s disease. No blaming your unlucky, uncertain fate. No blaming yourself. You are made of flesh and blood. We all are…… As I write, I find myself thinking about Heaven and Hell. About my path from there to now as an Alzheimer’s caregiver. I find myself thinking about my 8 plus years of studying and thinking about communication in schools. I say 8 plus because it all started at LaSalle College High School in Philadelphia. Later it became more formalized at the Pennsylvania State University (4 years) and the University of Georgia (4+ years). ___________________________ There is no doubt in my mind that the most important part of my education took place at LaSalle. I was fortunate to attend LaSalle when the education was tough, and the educators were demanding. Compared to LaSalle, undergraduate study at Penn State and graduate study at Georgia were a piece of cake. I can still remember vividly the day the acceptance letter came in from LaSalle. It was a Saturday morning. I opened it, read it and received the news — 5500 students from all over Philadelphia and the Philadelphia area had taken test. 140 students made it into the class of 1968.

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