The Long Goodbye A Caregiver's Tale |
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| Author:
| Wilson, John W. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9710427-6-6 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2020 |
| Publisher: | Gatewood Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $15.99 |
Book Description:
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I'm a caregiver. The patient is my wife. She has frontotemporal dementia, or FTD. What's captured here, in this book, are my thoughts and reactions over time as I came to terms with her disease. These mini-essays represent a curated selection of writings I've been publishing on social media since 2014. In the beginning, they were simply observations about the natural world of the Texas Hill Country. Gradually, however, my wife's disease came to occupy center stage; as it did, the...
More DescriptionI'm a caregiver. The patient is my wife. She has frontotemporal dementia, or FTD. What's captured here, in this book, are my thoughts and reactions over time as I came to terms with her disease. These mini-essays represent a curated selection of writings I've been publishing on social media since 2014. In the beginning, they were simply observations about the natural world of the Texas Hill Country. Gradually, however, my wife's disease came to occupy center stage; as it did, the essays became the public face of our life.