Farewell to Jackie: My Wife, My Best Friend, My Everything

On Saturday, August 15, Jacqueline (Jackie) Cristiano, my beautiful, loving wife, finally succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease after a 10-year struggle. I wanted to share this farewell with you. It was about 5:30 p.m., four days after she had been given “comfort” drugs, a combination of morphine and Lorazepam (Ativan), which put her into a deep […]