Telling someone about my diagnosis

Recently, I was talking to my twenty-nine-year-old daughter on the phone. We were finalizing our plans for Thanksgiving. She has recently met a new man and I will meet him for the first time on Thanksgiving. I asked my daughter to please do me a favor before I meet him. I asked her to let him know that I have a memory impairment. This will help me to relax around a new person and I won't worry so much about having trouble with my memory or word retrieval.

I wasn't quite ready for her response. She said that he would understand, since his grandmother has Alzheimer's! His mother is his grandmother's caregiver. She is also a caregiver for her husband who has Parkinson's with Lewy body dementia.

I guess that I've been thinking a lot about this conversation. Out of all the people who my daughter could have connected with on an online dating site, what are the odds that it would be someone who had a connection to dementia? I truly believe that God puts people in our lives for a reason. My youngest son's girlfriend is a nursing student and then she will become a nurse practitioner. While going to college, she is working in a nursing home, in a dementia unit. I strongly feel that she will be a good support for my son, especially if my mild cognitive impairment (MCI) progresses to dementia. I also feel that my daughter's boyfriend is in her life for a reason. It is too early to know if the relationship will last or not, but I have a feeling that my daughter will learn a little more about Alzheimer's than she does now.