In this podcast, we’re turning the tables on podcast host and producer Marianne Sciucco. She is the guest and Jean Lee of AlzAuthors is the interviewer. Marianne is a co-founder and manager of AlzAuthors and is the author of Blue Hydrangeas, an Alzheimer’s love story. She’s also a registered nurse who has cared for hundreds of dementia patients and their families over her 20+ years career. In 2015 she became a dementia daughter when her stepfather was diagnosed with mixed dementia: frontotemporal, Alzheimer’s, and vascular, and she became his long-distance caregiver. She soon took on the care of her mother. as well. Her caregiving journey ended in 2018. Marianne continues to work as a nurse in college health, is working on a prequel to Blue Hydrangeas, and is dedicated to making AlzAuthors an information hub for caregivers. In this episode, we discuss the many losses Marianne has recently endured, her new blog project “The Grief Diary: Exploring the Aftermath of Love and Loss,” the lessons she learned as a long distance caregiver, and how she wrote and published the book that launched AlzAuthors.  Read Marianne’s AlzAuthors post: https://alzauthors.com/2018/05/02/meet-marianne-sciucco-alzauthors-admin-and-author-of-blue-hydrangeas-an-alzheimers-love-story/  Start reading Blue Hydrangeas, an Alzheimer’s love story now! https://amzn.to/3suzfVv We are an Amazon Associate and may receive a small commission from book sales.  Connect with Marianne: Website and blog  https://mariannesciucco.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marianne.sciucco.1/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarianneSciucco LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marianne-sciucco/ Each season our podcast brings you six of our authors sharing their dementia journeys. Please subscribe so you don’t miss a word. If our authors’ stories move you please leave a review. And don’t forget to share our podcast with family and friends in need of knowledge, comfort and support on their own dementia journeys. AlzAuthors is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization totally reliant on donations to do what we do. Your generosity will help cover our many operating costs, which include website hosting and maintenance fees, service charges to keep things running smoothly, and marketing expenses to promote our authors, expand our content, improve our reach, and more, supporting our mission to lift the silence and stigma of Alzheimer’s and other dementias. To sustain our efforts please visit https://alzauthors.com/donate/ .  Thank you for listening!