Pianist Helps Man With Alzheimer's Find Lost Music

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3,587 Dec 28, 2017

68-year-old Steve Goodwin and his wife Joanie have been facing one of the toughest battles a couple can go through. Steve has Alzheimer’s Disease. Anyone who has fought this heartbreaking disease will tell you certain parts of losing your memory hurt way more than others. For Steve, the part that hurts the most is losing the music.

Steve is a software developer who loves to play the piano. For most of their marriage Steve wrote beautiful masterpieces for Joanie songs. Those songs are a piece of who Steve is and sadly they are a piece that Alzheimer’s is trying to take away. So when Steve sat down and tried to play some of the songs by memory and the songs stopped coming, this couple knew they needed to do something. Steve had never bothered to write the songs down, since no one prepares for Alzheimer’s to come knocking. That’s when their friend Naomi, a talented pianist, stepped in to help. For the past 2 years, Naomi has worked to piece together and save Steve’s songs.

The songs are now recorded so that they will never truly be lost. And when you hear the new song that Steve was able to write with Naomi's help, you’ll be reaching for the tissues. It is no wonder that the world is becoming captivated by Steve and Joanie’s story.

Source: CBS Sunday Morning

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