A Place For Betty and Ken
For a long time, Beverly Kalageorgi’s parents were the picture of health—and happiness. Married for more than sixty years, the couple, now both in their early eighties, were enjoying retirement and the quieter life from the comfort of their lakeside cottage in northern Michigan. But life has a way of getting complicated, and that’s what happened to Beverly’s parents, Betty and Ken Qualls, in 2002. “Mom started having short-term memory loss,” explains Beverly. At first, Beverly considered it a normal, though unfortunate, part of growing older. But as the weeks and months progressed, Betty’s memory loss worsened. “My father would bring it up with me,” she says. “He would say, ‘Mom’s losing her memory. She can’t focus on anything. It’s getting really difficult.’”
As it turned out, “difficult” was an understatement...
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