About this episode

Andrea Suchin shares her experience of caring for her husband as he battled behavioral frontotemporal dementia over six years.

If you looked at her life from the outside, it was perfect. A brilliant Harvard-trained doctor. Four beautiful children. A marriage built on love. And then, slowly… it wasn’t. In this episode of The Rollercoaster Podcast, I sit down with Andrea Suchin, caregiver, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Wuggle. For six years, Andrea watched subtle changes in her husband Craig, slowly unravel into something far more devastating. What began as small personality shifts spiraled into financial chaos, misdiagnosis, rage episodes, and ultimately a diagnosis of behavioral frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Craig showed symptoms for nearly six years. For the final four, Andrea became his full-time caregiver, managing medications, protecting their children, advocating when doctors dismissed her concerns, and standing by him until his final breath. This is a story about dementia, caregiver burnout, anticipatory grief, and the trauma of watching a mental death before a physical one. But it’s also about purpose. Andrea shares how survival mode led to the creation of Wuggle, a sleep solution now helping caregivers around the world. If you’re navigating caregiving, dementia, exhaustion, or profound loss…

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