For our Season 12 finale, we’re bringing you a conversation especially close to home.

Maria and Rachael sit down with Maria’s dad, Gary, and his wife, Meg, for a deeply personal conversation about caregiving, grief, and life after loss. After both losing their spouses to Frontotemporal Dementia, Gary and Meg found love again—showing us that heartbreak and hope can somehow coexist.

This episode is tender, honest, and full of heart. A conversation about honoring the people we carry with us, making room for joy again, and the quiet reminder that even after unimaginable loss, life can quietly surprise us with beautiful things again.

Thank you for spending Season 12 with us. What a gift it’s been. 🕊️

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Remember Me Podcast + Community exists to offer hope, connection, and support for families, caregivers, and individuals impacted by Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). Always, always accept the good.

Today’s episode is one of deep love, steadfast care, and the kind of devotion that quietly changes you.

This week, we sit with Meg as she shares the story of her husband, Bob—a laid-back soul who knew what mattered most in life. Though they had known each other since childhood, life brought them back together years later at a high school reunion, where friendship turned into a love story.

Bob’s journey with FTD—from diagnosis to his passing—was heartbreakingly short, lasting just two years. And through it all, Meg cared for him with extraordinary tenderness, strength, and grace.

As we near the close of this season, we want to thank you for listening, sharing, and walking alongside these stories with us. This is our second-to-last episode of the season, and next week, we’ll close things out with a very special episode you won’t want to miss.

Thank you for being here. Always, always accept the good. 🤍

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Today’s Sponsors — Progranulin Information Navigator Learn more about genetic testing, clinical trials, and FTD resources → ⁠⁠www.progranulinnavigator.org⁠⁠

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Remember Me Podcast + Community exists to offer hope, connection, and support for families, caregivers, and individuals impacted by Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). Always, always accept the good.

This episode is made up of your voices—listener-submitted advice, caregiving hacks, and the real-life tips that have helped you get through the days (and the nights). The small things, the practical things, the “why didn’t anyone tell me this sooner?” kind of things.

From navigating behaviors, to finding moments of relief, to the ways you’ve learned to care—for them and for yourself—this is wisdom that only comes from lived experience.

So whether you’re in it right now, or finding your footing on the other side, we hope something in here meets you where you are.

Thank you for showing up, for sharing, and for continuing to build this community with us.

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FIRST - THE LINKS MENTIONED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

Searching for the Words Substack

Expert Chat: How To Advocate For A Loved One Living In A Care Facility with Laurette Klier.

Participate in our Ask A Genetic Counselor Episode

Support the show + unlock bonus content (including a bonus episode with Amy): Patreon → ⁠⁠www.patreon.com/remembermecommunity⁠⁠

Today’s Sponsors — Progranulin Information Navigator Learn more about genetic testing, clinical trials, and FTD resources → ⁠⁠www.progranulinnavigator.org⁠⁠

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Our Non-Profit — The Remember Me Foundation ⁠⁠www.remembermefoundation.org⁠⁠

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Remember Me Podcast + Community exists to offer hope, connection, and support for families, caregivers, and individuals impacted by Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). Always, always accept the good.

This week, we sit with Kim as she shares the story of her life with Ike—the love at the center of it all, and the long, complicated road of FTD they’ve walked together. You can feel that love in every moment of this conversation—steady, enduring, and deeply human—as Kim speaks with honesty and courage about what it means to lose someone in pieces.

This episode holds so much of what Remember Me is about: the quiet and not-so-quiet challenges of care, the complexity of loving someone through delusion and change, the financial weight so many families carry, and the layered grief that weaves through it all.

Kim, thank you for trusting us—and this community—with your story.

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Support the show + unlock bonus content (including a bonus episode with Amy): Patreon → ⁠www.patreon.com/remembermecommunity⁠

Today’s Sponsors — Progranulin Information Navigator Learn more about genetic testing, clinical trials, and FTD resources → ⁠www.progranulinnavigator.org⁠

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Follow along: Instagram → @remembermepodcast Website → ⁠www.remembermeftd.com⁠

Our Non-Profit — The Remember Me Foundation ⁠www.remembermefoundation.org⁠

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Remember Me Podcast + Community exists to offer hope, connection, and support for families, caregivers, and individuals impacted by Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). Always, always accept the good.

This week, we sit with Amy as she shares the quiet, enduring love she built with Jeff—before, during, and beyond his diagnosis of Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). It’s a story of tenderness and patience, of navigating subtle changes, and the long, often winding road to understanding what was really happening.

Amy brings us into a life rooted in intention—a partnership marked by gentleness, humor, and deep presence—even as FTD slowly reshaped their world. This episode is a reflection on caregiving, early symptoms of FTD, the diagnostic journey, and what it means to hold onto love as everything shifts.

Thank you, Amy, for trusting us with your story.

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Website → www.remembermeftd.com

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www.remembermefoundation.org

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Remember Me Podcast + Community exists to offer hope, connection, and support for families, caregivers, and individuals impacted by Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD).
Always, always accept the good.

We're back from our mid-season break with a story of a young couple - Erin and Bob. Erin shares the journey to an FTD diagnosis after many misdiagnosis including young-onset Parkinsons.

Thank you Erin, for sharing your story with us.

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Remember Me Podcast + Community is here to offer hope + human connection for families, caregivers, and individuals impacted by Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). Always, always accept the good.

In our last episode before the mid-season break, Shane, takes to the mic , and both of us were eager to hear his story with his late wife, Faye.

This episode was extremely powerful to listen to as the love and the pain are both present. It’s a beautiful love story of self preservation, of letting go, of listening to your gut and leaning in to that love… that sweet, sweet love. Thanks for being so vulnerable, Shane. Yours and Faye's story will stay with us forever.

We'll be back April 14th to kick off the second half of Season 12. Be well. xx-R+M

A big thank you to our listeners, our supporters, our Patreons and our guests.

Want to support the podcast + get more content? Join us over on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! You get exclusive content + a space to share and connect with others. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.patreon.com/remembermecommunity⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

We'd love to connect with you on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram @remembermepodcast. For more general info about the podcast, please visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠our website at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ www.remembermeftd.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Before you go, we’d love for you to check out our new non profit foundation for the general neurodegenerative community of caregivers:

⁠www.remembermefoundation.org⁠

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Remember Me Podcast + Community is here to offer hope + human connection for families, caregivers, and individuals impacted by Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD).

Always, always accept the good.

Today you'll meet Susan and her late wife, Barbara. Susan joined us all the way from Mexico, where we saw her beautiful Milagro wall as she spoke so vulnerably about her love story with Barbara. Susan has a way of telling her story with so much tenderness and adoration that we could feel the beauty of their relationship across the miles. This story also so delicately discusses genetic FTD, and the incredible dedication Barbara and Susan had to research and clinical trials.

Oh, and Ms. Susan has written a book about her experience and we HIGHLY recommend you sign up for her e-mail list + keep an eye out for the book in June here: https://www.susankoen.com

Thank you, Susan, for sharing your love story with all of us.

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A big thank you to our listeners, our supporters, our Patreons and our guests. A special thank you to ⁠⁠⁠Psilera⁠⁠⁠ for supporting this season of Remember Me.

Ways to connect, get more resources + support RM:

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Always, always accept the good.

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