Alzheimer's Chronicles with Bella Doolittle
Read The Post-Star's ongoing series looking at early onset Alzheimer's disease with Bella Doolittle and her husband, Projects Editor Will Doolittle.
(28) updates to this series since
February has always been a contender for worst month of the year, and my wife, Bella, and I have shared some doozies.
One day, almost 30 years ago, my brother and I were painting the bedroom in the apartment in Saranac Lake where Bella and I lived with our two…
When we met, Bella was working three jobs, caring for two kids and commuting between two North Country communities an hour apart.
Turmeric and coconut oil, the email writers said, is the answer. A teaspoon of each per day and Bella will be kicking Alzheimer’s to the curb …
Bella has been able to reinvent herself several times over the 30 or so years we have been together, while I have remained a guy who works at …
I’ve always been an indifferent handyman, at best.
Bella and I are taking part in a drug trial she qualified for by testing positive for younger onset Alzheimer’s disease.
A large, quiet circle of Alzheimer’s caregivers exists probably in every community in this country.
Bella and I have spent 17 days in Scotland and done everything right. We haven’t lost our tempers or each other.
I saw the movie “My Dinner with Andre” around the time it came out, which was 1981, when I was 20.
Bella was raised a Catholic, and I went to Quaker meetings as a child in Pennsylvania.
Bella spends a lot more time at home now — since she left work in December, after a diagnosis of younger onset Alzheimer’s disease — but she h…
One of the great things about a good marriage is the feeling that you have a partner in the effort it takes to get through a day or a month, s…
The best of our reporters, our editors, our writers, all of those journalists who serve our communities bring a brutal honesty to their craft.
Age brings humility, but coping with the Alzheimer’s disease that afflicts my wife, Bella, is humbling me faster than my hair is falling out.
We walk through life thinking it’s solid ground beneath our feet, but a couple of words spoken by a doctor — words like “Alzheimer’s disease” …
Spending time with Bella, I sometimes worry I’m developing Alzheimer’s myself.
Our two youngest kids, Tam and Zoe, graduated from college almost a year ago. Tam moved to Kingston with a couple of friends, and Zoe moved in…
Alzheimer’s proceeds so slowly, parceling its progression out over years, that acceptance can catch up to grief and leave you in a happy place…
It has been a summer of anxiety for Bella and me. She has been feeling anxious about many things — a symptom of her Alzheimer’s disease — and …
Will Doolittle writes about the challenges his wife and he face of dealing with her younger onset Alzheimer's disease.
Will Doolittle talks about where he and his wife, Bella, are in their ongoing experience with Alzheimer's disease since her diagnosis almost three years ago.
It has been almost three years since Bella Doolittle was diagnosed with younger onset Alzheimer's disease, and she and her husband, Will, keep going, despite misplacing the car keys.
Bella and Will get on with their lives as spring arrives, somehow becoming accustomed to the constantly changing effects of Alzheimer's disease.
After your heart breaks, all you can do is get back to work.
As Alzheimer's disease brings confusion into our household, I try to impose order through small acts.
Alzheimer's Chronicles muses on the role of the caregiver, and what keeps you going.
Over the years, my wife and I have had dinner with Will and Bella Doolittle a couple of times.
Brian Mann from North Country Public Radio came to Glens Falls a couple of weeks ago to interview Bella, my wife, and me about Bella's younger…
GLENS FALLS — The Post-Star editor who has shared his family’s grief and pain about Alzheimer’s with the world has been recognized with a spec…
The Post-Star has been honored for the ninth time with the New York State Associated Press Association’s Newspaper of Distinction honor.
I like to clean the house when I’m upset, because at least I’m putting something in order.
Will and Bella Doolittle’s series of podcasts, The Alzheimer’s Chronicles, has been honored with a second-place for Journalistic Innovation in…
SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Post-Star was honored for the eighth time by the New York State Associated Press Association with its “Newspaper of Dis…
Glens Falls residents Will and Bella Doolittle record a podcast together focused on their journey with Bella's early onset Alzheimer's disease.