Connecticut Man With Alzheimer’s Remarries Wife After Forgetting They’re Married
Peter Marshall, a 56-year-old Andover, Connecticut man with early onset Alzheimer’s disease (a form of dementia found in people in their 30s through 60s), remarried his wife, Lisa Marshall, in April after forgetting that they were already married.
Lisa says for the last six months or so, her husband struggled to remember they were married, only thinking of her as his main caregiver. So, one day the couple were watching a wedding scene on TV last year and Peter, inspired, proposed to Lisa, and she said, “Let’s do it.” The Marshall’s daughter, Sarah Brehant, runs a wedding business and was ecstatic to put plan their renewal. Several vendors in the New England area agreed to help at no cost and on April 26 the Marshalls wed again in Massachusetts.
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Lisa, recalling the day, says, “It was just magical — straight out of a fairy tale. There wasn’t a dry eye, and I was over the moon. I hadn’t seen Peter that happy in a long time.” Meanwhile, Lisa says Peter’s condition has worsened since the wedding, but they’re taking things “one day at a time,” adding, “I don’t know who I am to him now, but I know that he definitely loves me and feels safe..”
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