Memoir

My great-grandma has been around my entire life, telling me stories and making “Mamaw’s Noodles” as everyone in our family calls it. In the last six or seven years, although she’s been there….her mind hasn’t. Alzheimer’s is a disease that destroys a person, they become someone totally different because they can’t remember who they were or anything about themselves or their family. It is so hard watching someone you love go thru those phases, and even worse when the day comes when they do not even know your name. Alzheimer's does not have a cure, and although the effects can be slowed down, sooner or later your loved one will not even be able to remember conversations you just had with them. My memories, however, are intact, and I am still able to remember those times before, the good times when my Mamaw used to scare us with stories of "The Big Thumb" and having to, "When I was a little girl..." go outside at night to go to the bathroom. These are the things I remember, what I want to write down before they too fade from my memory or God forbid are lost because of the disease known as Alzheimer's.

How is that for my first paragraph for my memoir paper? Does it need anything else? Should I take some of it out? Am I giving too much away in the first paragraph? Would you want to read the rest of my paper?