I Hope You Know You’re Fodder For A Book Someday
This manuscript is posted in its entirety. It’s the story of my husband’s and my 15-yr-journey with Alzheimer’s Disease. Through 14 years we had various supports and did all right. But in year 15, disaster struck. This book focuses heavily on that final year. It isn’t a fun read. That said, it’s a story that is still happening and needs to be told. My hope in posting it is to help create positive change in many areas concerned with dementia patients’ and their families’ journeys. Here’s one beta reader’s feedback.
“Well, it’s not easy reading but the writing is so engaging and the pacing is such that I read it compulsively. …What can I say? It’s overwhelming.”
–Caroline Woodward, author Singing Away The Dark
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FORTY-NINE
Action News from the ward when I called last night was that Bill was doing well. He was chatting with the nurses all day in actual conversation, laughing…
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FIFTY-FIVE
Tuesday, Sept. 19th, 2017 Had a nice lunch with friends, then at 4:00 o’clock this afternoon got a phone call from Meghna, the new Social Worker at the…
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SIXTY
De-institutionalizing Bill We all have habits, some good, some not. Me changing any of the habits I have that I want to change seems like an endless task,…
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SIXTY-SIX
No Voice I’m coughing but not vomiting anymore, so today I go with Stephanie to the hospital. She didn’t get as sick as Lily and I did and…
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Afterword
Where one story ends, another begins. It’s three and a half years since Bill died. In that time I’ve spent hours, days, weeks and months processing our journey…
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