Local author brings light to Alzheimer’s in “Martin and Me”

LUCAN – Alzheimer’s disease is irreversible and destroys brain cells; a disease that ultimately touches all aspects of an individual’s life.  Alzheimer’s was first identified by Dr. Alois Alzheimer in 1906 as an illness that affects cognitive and functional abilities, emotions and moods, behaviour and a person’s physical abilities.  When Catherine Parnell’s husband of 27…