When My Mom’s Alzheimer’s Met a Bear Sculpture

Or, when my best intentions didn’t help at all.

Andrea Aikin
Forget-Me-Not
Published in
4 min readAug 3, 2020

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Denver’s Big Blue Bear Sculpture. Photo by M. Pivonka

Years ago when my sons were small we took Gramma to downtown Denver and drove by the Colorado Convention Center to see the Big Blue Bear sculpture. He’s a forty-foot tall faceted lapis blue bear who appears to be checking out what’s going on inside the convention center.

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