Two Woodland High School teachers ride to end Alzheimers NBC Connecticut [Video]

Meghan Hatch and Paul Geary are both teachers at Woodland High School. This weekend, the husband and wife will participate in the New England Ride to End Alzheimer’s in New Hampshire. 

“I needed to do something positive and productive with my grief and my fear,” said Hatch, whose mother Linda is living with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Meghan and her dad Dan, who is Linda’s primary caregiver, plan to get on the bike along with Paul to raise money and awareness to help find a cure. Paul is riding for his brother-in-law’s father who passed away from the disease.

“I think the hardest thing about living with Alzheimer’s or being a family member of somebody with Alzheimer’s is not that they forget you, it’s that they forget themselves,” said Hatch.

Meghan’s parents met at Maloney High School and will celebrate 53 years of marriage on June 5th.

“It’s this loss of communication …