My Friend Has Lost Her Mind to Dementia

But I feel closer to her than ever before.

Photo by Danie Franco on Unsplash

Too weak to drive more than a few kilometers during cancer treatment in 2017, I was thrilled when my friend Carol (not her real name) told me she wanted to come for a visit. But I was also a bit concerned, as I knew she didn’t like driving in unfamiliar areas and I’d recently moved.