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Alzheimer Diary: A Wife's Journal
Alzheimer Diary: A Wife's Journal
Alzheimer Diary: A Wife's Journal
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Alzheimer Diary: A Wife's Journal

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"'The doctor tells me I have Alzheimer's.' The truth of my husband's words shook our world. This is my diary written for a time during the ten years of his spiral into another space."

There's no question Alzheimer's is a horror for those who are afflicted by it. But what about those who love them? This diary shows what Alzheimer's is like from the other side, the eyes and heart of a wife who is no longer only a wife but a caregiver. It is not an easy story. But that is how Alzheimer's is. Deep down you know this--you have felt the loss, frustration, anger, fatigue, and sorrow. You know what it is like when there doesn't seem to be an end in sight, each day like the last, only worse. But you don't have words for your feelings; you don't know what to do with the memories.

This book is for you.

Living on a farm, surrounded by goats, llamas, and sheep, the author writes about hope, despair, love, anger, frustration, and acceptance. In the end, she finds life. And you can too.

Alzheimer Diary: A Wife's Journal may help. If you don't know about Alzheimer's this book is also for you. It may open your eyes.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 7, 2012
ISBN9780983893455
Alzheimer Diary: A Wife's Journal
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Michelle Montgomery

Michelle Montgomery and her husband David Kent lived in Southern California with their three children until they moved to Oregon in 1984 to raise sheep and create an organic vegetable garden. Ms. Montgomery is a prolific poet with degrees in philosophy and psychology.

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    I was drawn to this book for the simple reason that I am interested in the impact of Alzheimer's disease on those who witness it ravaging their loved ones. Here is a witness account: Alzheimer Diary, A Wife's Journal.So is her book cover. Unlike the flashy, colorful, over-the-top book covers of todays' literary market, this book is done in monochrome, which draws attention to lights and shadows, and to the texture that is out of focus at the foreground, gets sharper briefly around the center, and falls away into a dark blur in the far background. It is the perfect metaphor for the loss of memory and visual perception that is so acute in those suffering from the disease.As a reader, I felt complete trust in her account, because in spite of her fragility, the ongoing stress and and the emotional pain, she writes her true feelings--even if they don't happen to be loving at the moment she records them. Even if she has to resort to irony in order to keep her wits. Which is the way she opens her journal, cursing her husband under her breath because he cannot manage finding his goddamn hat.Five stars.

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