About Sharon Annable

My Story

My husband Jack was diagnosed with Frontotemporal Dementia in March 2016. It was the beginning of a long, terrible and transformational journey that changed my life in more ways than I can describe.

I started the journey by doing everything I could to help Jack stay in my world. I reminded him how to do things and pushed him to follow routines. In hindsight, that was my biggest mistake. I created so much frustration when I could have been creating memories.

I finally realized I would have to learn Jack’s language and live in his world if I wanted us to stay connected. This led to me discovering a way to communicate with him by using mental images instead of words. These “conversations” were one sided at first; then Jack started sending images back to me. We were able to talk in this way until Jack’s death in 2020.

This journey taught me that there is more to dementia than meets the eye. I want to change how people percieve dementia.