The Longest Goodbye A Familys Hope Filled Journey Through Alzheimers

Author : Shelly Calcagno
Publisher : Ambassador International
ISBN 13 : 9781649602039
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Longest Goodbye: A Family's Hope-Filled Journey Through Alzheimer's written by Shelly Calcagno and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we ever ready to say goodbye? She looked out into the yard sprinkled with spring dandelions. "Yellow flowers," she said, searching for her words. We knew something wasn't right. That's when things began to fall apart for our family, when our longest goodbye journey began-the defining before-and-after moment. And now, looking back, it's been almost a decade of slow loss and drawn-out grief as we slowly let go of our beautiful mom. In the middle of it all, though, we have learned to look for hope and chase down joy, discovering that, in spite of our pain, there are always gifts to be found, even on the hardest of days. Alzheimer's disease affects almost fifty million people worldwide. It touches people across every walk of life. So, how do millions of people figure out how to love as they let go? The Longest Goodbye is a collection of stories and moments not just about the clinical side of memory loss-but the emotional heart journey. It is a story that shows how joy and grief are often intertwined and wrapped up together in the glorious mess of life. The Longest Goodbye encourages readers to remember the ones they love while they are still here and to intentionally celebrate and live through the pain and hard days. It's filled with tears, hope, and bitter-sweet moments all held together by the beautiful love of a mother and daughter holding onto a life filled with memories, while learning to let go and say goodbye. "Losing a parent is one of life's most difficult moments and, in some cases, a difficult season. Shelly's heartwarming, poignant, personal account of her decade-long journey of saying goodbye to her mom who suffered from memory loss will be a source of comfort and hope to anyone going through a similar experience." Carey Nieuwhof Bestselling Author, Speaker, and Host of the Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast "In The Longest Goodbye, Shelly gives us hope and help to navigate when a loved one faces memory loss. Shelly shares her decade-long journey watching her mother decline with Alzheimer's disease. Through heartfelt stories and reflections, she gives her readers a glimpse into the pain of seeing a loved one slowly fade away while at the same time looking for hope-filled moments along the way. Shelly expresses how joy and pain can co-exist and where to look when everything feels lost. And most of all, her experience shows how the bonds of family and unconditional love carried her through. This book isn't about the clinical part of the disease; it's about the heart and how to hold on through all the seasons of memory loss." Kevin Scott Author, Leadership Expert, and Co-founder of ADDO "It's much easier to write fiction than to share a hard, human story of love and loss for others to read. Shelly has brilliantly authored pages that share the hard and the good of loving someone fiercely, while losing them slowly to Alzheimer's. Shelly is both honest and honoring with her words as she draws the reader into the journey of the one thing she feared most-her mother's diagnosis and slow decline due to Alzheimer's. Shelly's words paint a stunning picture of a brave and tender response to human suffering. Be moved in the reading of this beautiful remembrance." Cathie Ostapchuk Author of Brave Women, Bold Moves Co-Founder and Lead Catalyst for Gather Women Host of The Strong Way Podcast

Author : Shelly Calcagno
Publisher : Ambassador International
ISBN 13 : 1649603371
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Longest Goodbye: A Family's Hope-Filled Journey Through Alzheimer's written by Shelly Calcagno and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we ever ready to say goodbye? She looked out into the yard sprinkled with spring dandelions. “Yellow flowers,” she said, searching for her words. We knew something wasn’t right. That’s when things began to fall apart for our family, when our longest goodbye journey began—the defining before-and-after moment. And now, looking back, it’s been almost a decade of slow loss and drawn-out grief as we slowly let go of our beautiful mom. In the middle of it all, though, we have learned to look for hope and chase down joy, discovering that, in spite of our pain, there are always gifts to be found, even on the hardest of days. Alzheimer’s disease affects almost fifty million people worldwide. It touches people across every walk of life. So, how do millions of people figure out how to love as they let go? The Longest Goodbye is a collection of stories and moments not just about the clinical side of memory loss–but the emotional heart journey. It is a story that shows how joy and grief are often intertwined and wrapped up together in the glorious mess of life. The Longest Goodbye encourages readers to remember the ones they love while they are still here and to intentionally celebrate and live through the pain and hard days. It’s filled with tears, hope, and bitter-sweet moments all held together by the beautiful love of a mother and daughter holding onto a life filled with memories, while learning to let go and say goodbye.

Author : Claudia Strauss
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
ISBN 13 : 1608822524
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talking to Alzheimer's written by Claudia Strauss and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alzheimer's can have a devastating impact on a patient's close relationships and all too often, family members and friends feel so uncomfortable that they end up dreading visits, or simply give up trying to stay in contact with the patient. This book offers a wealth of practical things you can do to stay connected with the Alzheimer's patient in your life. It offers straightforward suggestions and invaluable do's and don'ts, with advice on everything from dealing effectively with the inevitable repetition that occurs in conversations with an Alzheimer's patient to helpful strategies for saying no to unrealistic demands. It also includes thoughtful tips to remind you to take care of your own feelings and suggestions for helping children become comfortable with visiting an Alzheimer's sufferer.

Author : Barry Rex Petersen
Publisher : Behler Publications
ISBN 13 : 1933016442
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jan's Story written by Barry Rex Petersen and published by Behler Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CBS News correspondent Barry Petersen tells the tender story of his wife's battle with Early Onset Alzheimer's.

Author : Shelly Winsor Calcagno
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781770696921
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tini's Tangles written by Shelly Winsor Calcagno and published by . This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things get a little hairy for Tini after a day of rickety-rackety hair-brushing drama! Shelly Calcagno is a freelance writer who lives in Waterdown, Ontario, with her amazing husband, two energetic kids, and a cranky cat named Zoe. www.shellycalcagno.com

Author : Patti Davis
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631497995
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Floating in the Deep End: How Caregivers Can See Beyond Alzheimer's written by Patti Davis and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the heartfelt prose of a loving daughter, Patti Davis provides a life raft for the caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients. “For the decade of my father’s illness, I felt as if I was floating in the deep end, tossed by waves, carried by currents, but not drowning,” writes Patti Davis in this searingly honest and deeply moving account of the challenges involved in taking care of someone stricken with Alzheimer’s. When her father, the fortieth president of the United States, announced his Alzheimer’s diagnosis in an address to the American public in 1994, the world had not yet begun speaking about this cruel, mysterious disease. Yet overnight, Ronald Reagan and his immediate family became the face of Alzheimer’s, and Davis, once content to keep her family at arm’s length, quickly moved across the country to be present during “the journey that would take [him] into the sunset of [his] life.” Empowered by all she learned from caring for her father—about the nature of the illness, but also about the loss of a parent—Davis founded a support group for the family members and friends of Alzheimer’s patients. Along with a medically trained cofacilitator, she met with hundreds of exhausted and devastated attendees to talk through their pain and confusion. While Davis was aware that her own circumstances were uniquely fortunate, she knew there were universal truths about dementia, and even surprising gifts to be found in a long goodbye. With Floating in the Deep End, Davis draws on a welter of experiences to provide a singular account of battling Alzheimer’s. Eloquently woven with personal anecdotes and helpful advice tailored specifically for the overlooked caregiver, this essential guide covers every potential stage of the disease from the initial diagnosis through the ultimate passing and beyond. Including such tips as how to keep a loved one hygienic, and careful responses for when they drift to a time gone by, Davis always stresses the emotional milestones that come with slow-burning grief. Along the way, Davis shares how her own fractured family came together. With unflinching candor, she recalls when her mother, Nancy, who for decades could not show her children compassion or vulnerability, suddenly broke down in her arms. Davis also offers tender moments in which her father, a fabled movie star whom she always longed to know better, revealed his true self—always kind, even when he couldn’t recognize his own daughter. An inherently wise work that promises to become a classic, Floating in the Deep End ultimately provides hope to struggling families while elegantly illuminating the fragile human condition.

Author : Margaret R. Miles
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498282385
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Goodbye written by Margaret R. Miles and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long Goodbye: Dementia Diaries discusses a disease that is both personal and social for more than five million patients and their families and friends in the United States today. Now that there are medical strategies for preventing and/or curing strokes, heart attacks, even cancer, many more people are going to live into the dementia years in the near future. Although many dementia horror stories circulate in conversation and in the media, they are not the whole story. Creative approaches to loving a dementia patient can make for a valuable learning experience for family and caregivers. In The Long Goodbye Margaret Miles describes her commitment to making--rather than passively suffering--her spouse's dementia experience. Family and friends who accompany patients find embedded in the experience moments of great beauty, hilariously funny incidents, new companions, and life insights. The narrative provides both a travelogue and suggestions for a richly meaningful life passage for all participants. The Long Goodbye seeks to supply a balanced picture of a disease usually represented as unmitigated loss.

Author : LaBena Fleming
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Love You Always written by LaBena Fleming and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caring for someone who has Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia is a daunting task that can leave most caregivers drained, strained, and depressed. Many find comfort in knowing they are not alone and in being able to share their experiences with someone who understands what they are going through. They want assurance that it's normal to "lose it" occasionally and that feeling "less than" is common. Caregivers need all the support and tools they can garner to help them survive this experience. Such was the reason for writing "I Love You Always," which is an honest account of one family's experiences from diagnosis and beyond.Lottie has survived seemingly insurmountable tragedies in her life, emerging stronger after each one. When she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's and vascular dementia, at the age of eighty, she becomes determined to live until ninety, longer than anyone in her immediate family. Her children join forces to help Lottie reach her goal while ensuring she remains in her beloved home. I Love You Always is her daughter LaBena's account of their tumultuous journey, sharing practical tips for caregivers, as well as the lessons of love, laughter, and faith that were learned along the way.You are not alone and the more we share our stories, the more people will understand. May there soon be a cure!

Author : Bob Miller
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781475946727
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Mom Inez written by Bob Miller and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alzheimers hijacked their plans, required their full attention, and forced them to change their daily habitstheir very livesin order to accommodate its merciless, unrelenting demands. In My Mom Inez, author Bob Miller shares the story of his familys life against the backdrop of Alzheimers disease. In this deeply personal and powerful account, Miller tells of his role as an only son who unexpectedly found himself in the position of having to care for his beloved mother, Inez, once it became clear she had been stricken with Alzheimers disease. In this memoir, he narrates his struggles to understand what was happening and how he then coped with the emotional, medical, social, and economic issues her condition brings to their lives. With the familys history interwoven, My Mom Inez demonstrates the strength of the human spirit as Miller remains dedicated to providing the same loving care for his mother that she delivered to him throughout his life.

Author : Cathy Greenblat
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762784024
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love, Loss, and Laughter written by Cathy Greenblat and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See the BBC’s slideshow of photos from Love, Loss, and Laughter.