Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    My Husband's Keeper: A Memoir
    Unavailable
    My Husband's Keeper: A Memoir
    Unavailable
    My Husband's Keeper: A Memoir
    Ebook195 pages2 hours

    My Husband's Keeper: A Memoir

    By Michele Artiz Smith J.D.

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    This book is my journey after receiving my husband's diagnosis of Alzheimer's/Dementia. Writing and rereading this book a hundred times, allowed me to see for the first time, the strength that lay within me while I experienced being a married women losing a spouse to this illness.
    My husband's occupation was an ophthalmologist while being on the board of director's over ten years for one of the largest
    HMO's in the country.
    I share my experiences with other caregivers in this same position. Working as a State Certified Ombudsman in long term care facilities allowed me to first-hand witness the paralysis family members experience after receiving this diagnosis and living with the consequences of the illness.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateDec 2, 2019
    ISBN9781543990928
    Unavailable
    My Husband's Keeper: A Memoir

    Related to My Husband's Keeper

    Related ebooks

    Personal Memoirs For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      When Virtues Become Vices

      Oct 10, 2022

      When Virtues Become Vices
      9 min read

    • Article

      Q&A William Peters

      Nov 26, 2020

      Q&A William Peters
      4 min read

    • Article

      Living Your Dreams

      Apr 24, 2020

      Living Your Dreams
      7 min read

    • Article

      Would You Get A DEMENTIA DIVORCE?

      Apr 11, 2023

      The vows and commitments we make when we marry are intended to last a lifetime. In sickness and in health. For better or for worse. But should there be exceptions to these promises? Billionaire Porsche executive Wolfgang Porsche, 79, came under fir

      4 min read

    • Article

      Q&A Jeffrey Long

      Nov 25, 2022

      Q&A Jeffrey Long
      6 min read

    • Article

      Reviews

      Aug 31, 2018

      “When it comes to our ecological, social, cultural and economic future, misplaced optimism is as dangerous as blind faith. What is needed is the courage to face the way things are, and the wisdom and imagination - informed by the best available evide

      4 min read

    • Article

      A Mental Disease by Any Other Name: For Frank Russell, reinterpreting his schizophrenia as shamanism helped his symptoms.

      Sep 15, 2016

      It starts without warning—or rather, the warnings are there, but your ability to detect them exists only in hindsight. First you’re sitting in the car with your son, then he tells you: “I cannot find my old self again.” You think, well, teenagers say

      14 min read

    • Article

      Where The Wild Things Are.

      Sep 3, 2020

      Where The Wild Things Are.
      12 min read

    • Article

      Finding My WAY TO THE Light Again

      Oct 14, 2019

      Finding My WAY TO THE Light Again
      3 min read

    • Article

      A Mental Disease by Any Other Name

      Mar 1, 2018

      It starts without warning—or rather, the warnings are there, but your ability to detect them exists only in hindsight. First you’re sitting in the car with your son, then he tells you: “I cannot find my old self again.” You think, well, teenagers say

      14 min read

    • Article

      The Intimacy Of Covid

      Mar 23, 2021

      The Intimacy Of Covid
      5 min read

    • Article

      Delia Ephron

      Jan 8, 2022

      Your memoir chronicles your leukemia diagnosis in 2017, five years after losing your sister Nora to the same cancer. Throughout the book, you repeat this mantra: “You are not your sister.” Do you still find yourself saying that? I never said that to

      2 min read

    • Article

      Delia Ephron

      Jan 7, 2022

      Your memoir chronicles your leukemia diagnosis in 2017, five years after losing your sister Nora to the same cancer. Throughout the book, you repeat this mantra: “You are not your sister.” Do you still find yourself saying that? I never said that to

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Missing Diagnosis

      Oct 17, 2023

      OLDER PEOPLE ARE being routinely let down when it comes to their mental health. Over the past 20 years I have worked on and off in old age psychiatry—and have seen repeated examples of how poor the provision is for this group of people. Despite there

      2 min read

    • Article

      Commentary: Mental Illness Was My Family's Secret — And America's Great Shame

      Oct 1, 2019

      In 2011, I began a professional and personal journey to understand my profession's abandonment of our sickest patients. I had been trained as a psychiatrist at an Ivy League medical center on the East Coast. Like most of my colleagues in my generatio

      5 min read

    • Article

      All In The Mind

      Jul 1, 2022

      All In The Mind
      4 min read

    • Article

      Winning Letter

      Mar 1, 2024

      THE other day I received a notification on my banking app of what I thought was an unexpected payment that had gone off on my account. Panic and paranoia set in fast. Was I being scammed? Had my card been cloned somewhere? Was this just the beginning

      5 min read

    • Article

      Is Emmerdale’s latest storyline CALLOUS OR BRAVE?

      Nov 24, 2020

      Soaps are known for their high drama when tackling harrowing subjects. Still, when Emmerdale announced Laurel Thomas, played by Charlotte Bellamy, 47, and her on-screen partner Jai Sharma (Chris Bisson, 45) will terminate their pregnancy after pre-na

      4 min read

    • Article

      How a Kidney Stone Taught Me That Medicine Has Changed Me

      Oct 19, 2017

      To me, a kidney stone wasn't really a big deal. But to my husband, it was a family crisis, and it taught me how medicine has changed me.

      4 min read

    • Article

      Life On Civvy Street

      Mar 16, 2021

      GEORGE HAD BEEN happiest in the army. Looking at him now, sitting hunched up, speaking in almost inaudible whispers and barely making eye contact, it was difficult to believe that he had ever been happy. I looked around his room as I talked to him in

      2 min read

    • Article

      Adversity’s Gift

      Jan 16, 2024

      I’M ALWAYS WARY of the tired old mantra, “If it doesn’t kill you, it’ll make you stronger.” I mean, what about polio? Or whiplash? Or loads of other horrible things that if you survive you’re left scarred in one way or another. I think it’s a tired c

      2 min read

    • Article

      Grief, Everywhere

      Apr 12, 2022

      Grief, Everywhere
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Way Back

      Mar 5, 2023

      The Way Back
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Way Back

      Mar 5, 2023

      The Way Back
      4 min read

    • Article

      Winning Letter

      Sep 22, 2023

      THOSE of you who read YOU regularly will by now know I’m not a natural when it comes to exercise. My husband has managed to get a great routine going and is at it at least four days a week. Although I’m always impressed with his efforts I can’t seem

      5 min read

    • Article

      I Watched My Sister DISAPPEAR

      May 2, 2023

      Back in February, the news that Bruce Willis had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) hit me hard. Not because I’m a huge Die Hard fan, but because I know far too much about FTD, and my heart breaks for the 68-year-old Hollywood actor an

      4 min read

    Reviews for My Husband's Keeper

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words