This is such a touching tribute to Mr Crawford’s mother and family in general. It is done with care, humor, and love. I am so glad it was made and that I got to find it.

I love your podcast. You’re so real. You shine a light on something so important. My heart is full from the amazing way you loved and cared for your mom, and the honesty and vulnerability of you and your family.💕🙏🦋🌷

My name is Gavin!!! Toooooooooo! So cool

My mom lives with me and has Alzheimer’s. I appreciate all of the candor and honesty about finding the humor in situations, and the hard topics like wondering if genetically we are looking at our future. Very relatable. Thank you for sharing the story of your mother and family with us.

Thank you so much for this, Gavin!

Thank you so much for this. My mom died awhile ago and I didn’t realize that much of her final behavior was due to her disease. After listening I realized that many of my memories of her were wrong! They weren’t her. Gavin has helped me forgive myself. This podcast was a blessing.

I have been given surprisingly good feelings about my mom’s Alzheimer’s listening to this show and it gave me alot of the funny memories we shared during the terrible ones . My favorite was her asking me if I had kids and how old they were ….I told her they were in college and she gave this huge sigh and said, “isn’t it SO nice to have them out of the house.” My sister and I love that one . Thank you for the podcast .

I don’t generally write reviews, but this series was what I needed right now. I’m currently seeing my mom through late stage dementia. It has been quite a journey this far. This podcast was the first time I have ever heard anyone talk about the experience in exactly all the ways I feel. And with all the humor that is a part of the experience. Really wonderful. Thank you for this.

Gavin is wonderful at politely & gracefully sharing how much it hurts to accept your family member experiencing dementia (/end of life/difficult health moment/the unthinkable), you just have to roll with it…but let’s not be kidding (bc yeah, Donna gets it)

So heartwarming and funny, tells it like it is, each character deals in their own way, lots to take away⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Thank you Gavin for doing this podcast. My mother has Alzheimer’s and I laughed and cried while listening to this, mostly while walking down public paths and streets. It has helped and you achieved your goal.

I have never rated/reviewed a podcast before but I just loved this so much. My grandmother had dementia so I could relate to a lot of this. I’m also a medical social worker & your father & guests were spot on about how much time, effort, manpower & money goes into caring for our aging elders, and then add Alzheimer’s on top. This was so well-done & the ending!!! It was perfect.

Just beautiful.

I laughed, I cried. My heart hurts and I wish I could hug you. Navigating dementia and Alzheimer’s is so, so tough.

I really loved getting to know Donna through this podcast, as well as her family. This helped me understand so much more about the experience of accompanying someone through their life with dementia and in old age in general, as well as that long grief that begins when the signs first arrive. I will remember the stories told here for a long time.

I, too, am losing a mom to Alzheimers. Listening to this podcast made me realize that sharing our stories is probably our best form of healing and therapy. Hearing of the similar challenges on this path makes my journey seem a little lighter now. And reminding us we can still remember to laugh, makes this podcast a gem.

So well done and such a good understanding (and depiction) of who people are. Even though I’ve never experienced a situation like this, I greatly appreciated the deep and honest insight to what it is like. I can only imagine that that is extremely powerful for someone who is, in fact, going through this and finally feels understood.

This is the single most important podcast I have ever listened to. I don’t have a family history with Alzheimer’s but Donna’s story is a must listen for every one of us because it’s essentially a story about losing a loved one, and we will all experience that degree of loss over and over.

I really enjoyed this series about Gavin’s mother. He was so caring when he told the stories about her. Not an easy thing for him to do I’m sure. He shows us that it’s ok to laugh at this disease and to take it as it comes.

Thank you! For putting words to the process of navigating a relationship with your loved one as they experience dementia and or Alzheimer’s. You articulate it in an excellent manner. I felt validated. I tried to tell my extended family what it was like and they just couldn’t relate. Thank you

My mom died from dementia 2.5 years ago, and this podcast has done more to heal me than all the time/money I’ve given to a therapist since her death. So beautifully funny and warm and tragically real. I was a podcast consumer years before everyone else was, in the early 2000s listening to This American Life on my local NPR station every Saturday at 4:00 bc that was the only way to listen. This series is TAL quality. I wish it went on infinitely.

Love this podcast. Tough topic that many adults are experiencing with their parents, but engaging, sincere, tender, and humorous. Who knew! Very respectful of the woman who inspired the series. Connections and love in the midst of loss and deep reckoning.

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Perfection. Pure & simple. Thank you. 🕊️

I’m sorry to see it end.

very very good. crying.

Thank you for sharing your story, Gavin! I am slowly loosing my spouse to the same disease. I am so grateful because your show gives me a safe place to laugh & cry. I don’t know how to explain the insanity of this disease, but your stories paint the picture so well. I have recommended this show to many. LOL - Believe it or not we are driving in the car as I type this!

Thanks for letting us in, Gavin! This is so sweet, funny, heart-breaking, joyful, and so many other things.

This both warms and breaks my heart. I’ve listened to it more than once, when I want to laugh through tears.

Came right at the perfect time as I process through my own loved one’s decline

Thank you so much for making this series. As someone currently dealing with a mom on this path through dementia/alzheimers, so many parts of these episodes hit very close to home. It’s nice to know how many others are on this path and it’s good, although scary, to see what will probably lie ahead with my mom. As she says to me a lot, getting old ain’t for sissies.

I thoroughly enjoyed this series. It was so hilarious yet had me leaking tears every episode. I loved it. I’m sad there isn’t more. This was fantastic. A great memorial for Donna ❤️

I read the promotion of this podcast on my Facebook. My Mother Ms. Donna R. was a highly dignified Woman. A native of Riverton Utah and with a very distinct Utah twang. I called Her “the Cowgirl from Utah”. She also had a terrific sense of humor. I was also a, Mother’s Boy. Though i am not Gay. I went through the cognitive deterioration of our Mom between 2002-2011. I shepherded Her through the last years of Her life and without the help of either of my siblings ( they were not emotionally capable of shouldering the journey). My Father was also enraged and incapable of assisting. Yes, i have so many stories of that time, some are extremely painful, some very funny. Like, “ you need that cookie like you need a whole in the head” ! I now view these experiences as necessary parts of the grieving process. I’ve written 25-30 poems or prose pieces which were about my grief, funny things my Mom said. Funny things various caretakers said and did which helped us ( no we didn’t do it “ alone”). My Mom also had a sizable estate which made for a very stressful and costly situation with a hungry pack of lawyers. But they were comedy and tragedy as well. Our Mom named me Her PR ( unbeknownst to me) in 1998 when She still had Her cognitive faculties…. i was still a young Man in my early 40’s. I’d also been divorced for about 10 years at the time and fortunately had a very cooperative and helpful Ex-wife and high functioning and mature Daughter. We were sandwiched between raising of Daughter and shepherding our Mother(s) through the final years and months of their lives. In my Mom’s case She was worth every minute , dollar, heartbreak, breakdown and humiliation. Because She had treated everyone with such a high degree of dignity, respect and warmth throughout Her life. So in a way it was easy to help Her ( the natural thing) at the end as She had Helped me all throughout my life. Good luck with your podcast young Man. Loa Tzu once said if you were a “good Son” , when your Mother dies, you should celebrate “ dance” in the street. And i did.

Congratulations on your new podcast. I guess I am your first review. You need to listen to Community News with Paul and Sasha and have them on your show.