✨Year 5✨

Our mother Janice was diagnosed with dementia in  2013 at the young age of 52. Each person's journey with this disease is different in their own ways as there are many similarities. Watching her go through all that she has as she progress through the disease, walking this journey alongside her while supporting her, and ourselves has been a true testament of love.  It hasn't been easy, there has been immense change with many life events, tragic losses and learning to live through our new 'normal'. But always as I say, through tragedy though there is light and she shines brightly. She knows deep in her soul that the people who show up and care for her, love her unconditionally. We will not stop showing up for her, advocating, and loving her so deeply. 

Now a days, there is someone I'm sure you know or know someone who has been side by side someone battling these diseases. Dementia and Alzheimer's is something that can go unnoticed/unseen in early stages of just someone being forgetful, misplacing items, having to repeat over what is being asked of them/said and it is something that can come as a tornado all at once.

Thank you so much to everyone who joins our team for the Walk, donates to a cause that is so much bigger than us and who sends love from a far to Team Blanchard. This event is always so full of endless love, community that radiates pure love and a type of support that comes being surrounded by so many individuals who just want to be there for one another. 

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts