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I’ve been reading that in articles for the past week. I know that mine has been coming back for six months or now. I have been working on it for an hour or so most every day. It has been quite a task because at some point over the years my border backgrounds were no longer the right width. I learned that I needed to use CSS (Cascading style sheets) to get them to look as they had before. Though I have gone over most of them, I still have a few of my 365 pages to correct (thankfully probably half of them have tiled or no instead of border backgrounds). I have had to delete or comment out the links to some of my pages where so many links have disappeared or do some explaining in the text while I search for replacements.
It was a whole different world on the internet back in 1996. We had so many personal “homepages”. There was Geocities and other sites that let anyone create homepages for free. There were so many people I met who had created pages to honor their loved ones who had Alzheimer’s, and so much support in chats and mailing lists. There were so many creative people doing pages to showcase and offer to others their backgrounds, graphics, animations, and music. And there were awards for personal homepages. There were a few big ones, but mostly it was just awards created by one person to give to another, to show appreciation, and to help bring traffic. My site made it to the top ten most awarded personal homepages.
Then life took me away from the Web. Work, a divorce, relationships, marrying my 1st again, then his divorcing me again, then all my siblings passing away over a few years, and five cats passing away as well. My aim has been to go back and update my site as soon as I retired. But retirement kept getting postponed, and the fact that both my brothers passed away at 74 made me stop in my tracks and realize that I might not make it to retirement and even if I did, probably wouldn’t be much beyond.
So I have begun, and I will continue, and I will keep being amazed and saddened by how much the Web has changed, though I know technology has advanced. And my site, though I try to do it professionally as I can, will still always be a personal site, with my caregiving journal, my poetry, and my photos of my mother and my family through the years.
I’d like to invite you to visit A Year to Remember…with my mother and Alzheimer’s disease at http://www.zarcrom.com/users/yeartorem/
I’m not sure what made me stop writing here six years ago, but I suspect it had to do with the fact that my siblings had started passing away. My oldest brother passed away in 2016 at the age of 74. My sister passed away the next year in 2017 at the age of 81. My other brother passed away last year in 2022 at the age of 74.
My brother-in-law passed away a week before Christmas 2021, so now there’s no one back home.
And the man I was married to twice, who was my forever friend even when we weren’t together, passed away a little over a year ago in 2022.
Plus I had knee replacement surgery in Feb. 2020 just before Covid-19 hit. I had the other one done this year in March 2023 just as Covid was letting up enough to have it done.
All this and the death of several of my cats over these years I guess made me forget to come here.
I am grateful for new friends who came along eight years ago who helped me through all this.
I am grateful that I was able to walk for my 26th consecutive year in memory of my mother in this year’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s.
I am still working at 68, and I suppose life is not going to slow down anytime soo, so I must just get back at it. I am finally getting back at updating my lost-in-cyberspace Web site I started back in 1996 in memory of my mother.
Oh so much has changed since back then!
Remembering My Mother & Alzheimer's .. 