2009 Statesboro Memory Walk - Statesboro, GA

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Christy Griner Hulsey

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Money Raised to Date:
$75.00

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Support our team with lots of love, good thoughts, sunshine, prayers, and donations to our goal as we walk in memory of Dad

Following is a PSA from this spring (to explain why the sentences go on and on). It is tough to write about Dad right now. This is easy for me and I think it is appropriate. Thank you for your support!!!

One nasty fall while walking a dog landed my Dad in the emergency room, and rewarded him with two broken arms and a cracked collar bone. The Doctor’s asked us to do what he had begged us never to do - to put him in a nursing home.
Hello, my name is Christy Hulsey. My dad, Sam Griner, lived with early onset dementia for years. He never recovered from his fall last August. In fact, he got his angel wings less than 90 days later. He died last year on October 26th.
Despite a keen understanding of the gross challenge of living with Alzheimer’s, it is not easy to say goodbye to someone you love and idolize.
Alzheimer’s is an agonizing disease that will make you forget the faces of men you ate breakfast with everyday for years, the route to your Kiwanis Meeting or to church and even the way home. It made him forget his favorite places like the Pancake House, and favorite faces, like his wife’s and his daughter’s. It will make you incontinent and unable to remember how to eat and to walk, laugh or smile. It makes you lose yourself and your dignity.
I am talking about a man who lovingly took me to every single Georgia Southern Game and countless UGA games, chauffeured me to preschool every day as a child, taught me each of the constellations as we looked through his telescope, and tutored me in Algebra. He came to every dance recital, track meet, and football game. He escorted me on the homecoming field and down the isle. He taught me compassion for animals and helped me open my own pet sitting business. He was a smart man with a sharp mind. He went to the Ag school at the University of Georgia and read Discovery Magazine and Astronomy Magazines for fun. He played football for Bobby Bowdin in his early days and exercised every day of his life. He was a healthy, intelligent man, a loving husband, and an amazing Dad.
Dementia took it all away.
I vision a world without Alzheimer’s, a world where Daddy’s remember their daughters until their dying day.
Thank you for supporting the Griner Gang with your donation of thoughts, prayers, wishes, smiles, laughter, encouragement and sponsorship. We walk in memory of Dad as we envision a world without Alzheimer’s.

*The photo is of my family at Beatrice's first Birthday party. He lost his driving license the month before this photo. He died six months after this picture was taken.

**Dad, I know you are out there. I know you are looking down. And, that you are proud. I love you MUCH; and, miss you more.

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