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My husband’s rapid descent into the cruel world of Alzheimer’s disease.

By Carly Bennett Stenmark

Carly’s journey began with finding her one and only true love and ended with her love’s early onset Alzheimer’s disease.

Living the perfect life in a small ski resort town turned to imperfect when she was blindsided by her husband’s early onset Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis, something she knew nothing about.

In an effort to help herself, her soulmate and ultimately others, she struggled to learn anything and everything she could about this insidious disease. All the while facing monumental challenges with grace, fortitude and much needed humor, knowing her love and life partner had been given the ultimate death sentence.

Her healthy and incredibly intelligent husband was living proof that Alzheimer’s disease doesn’t discriminate. It can happen to anyone at any time. However through it all, she remained steadfast and persistent as her undying love never faded.

Carly desperately tried to grapple with eventually losing her husband without losing herself in the arms of grief and sorrow.

Carly Bennett Stenmark is an extraordinary individual, a retired salon owner, nail technician, and published author. As a loving mother of four, grandmother of fourteen, and a great-grandmother of ten, Carly’s life is a shining example of love and resilience.

While enjoying her family, golfing, skiing, writing her first book, working full time, and singing backup vocals with her singer/songwriter husband, Carly attended night school three nights a week. Driven to obtain her high school diploma, which she successfully earned in 2017 after a three-year effort, making her a Park City high school graduate…just like her children.

Living in Park City, Utah, Carly enjoys a variety of activities including running, snow shoeing, hiking, listening to music, reading, golfing, skiing and watching British detective television shows. But life took an unexpected turn in the fall of 2019 when she began noticing significant changes in her husband’s memory. And then the devastating diagnosis: Stage five Alzheimer’s disease.

With courage, humor and determination, Carly transformed a life-changing experience into a powerful story and felt compelled to share her experience of living with her husband before and after his diagnosis all the while acknowledging the harsh and painful realization that it can happen to anyone at any time.

Contact Information: cstenmark@me.com