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Index
Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
1. When My Father Died
2. Taking Care of Mom
3. Cancer Rears its Ugly Head
4. Secrets
5. It Starts
6. Strange Behavior
7. Doctors and Diet
8. Just Getting Old
9. Bad Decisions Cause Physical Problems
10. Promises to Break
11. Physically, It Gets More Serious
12. They Say They Know But They Don’t
13. Change Equals Stress
14. Moving to Maine
15. Time to See a New Doctor
16. The Neurologist
17. OK, It’s Alzheimer’s. Now What?
18. Are You Really Ready for The Sacrifice?
19. The Line in the Sand
20. Day Care
21. Finding the Right Alzheimer’s Care Facility
22. If I Knew Then What I Know Now
23. The Last Long Road Trip She Would Ever Take
24. Major Life Changes
25. The Balancing Act
26. Redirection and Lying
27. Giving-in to Professional Care
28. What is the Right Thing to Do?
29. The Broken Promise
30. Adjusting to the New Home
31. Shift Change
32. The Failure of Modern Medicine
33. Countdown to Defeat
34. Myoclonus
35. Morphine
36. The Last Two Weeks
37. Chinese Wisdom
38. Tell Your Mother You Love Her
39. Is it Just a Machine?
40. Her Last Night
Epilogue
My mother in her new home in Maine, one year before diagnosis. Three years before assisted living.
Left to right. Mom’s brother Johnny, who died from a form of dementia, Me, Mom’s sister, Mercedes, M...
Mom at the age of seventeen or eighteen.
At the resident care facility with G. This was taken about one year after first taking Seroquel. The...
My father and me. Waterman Beach Farm, So. Thomaston, Maine. Looking towards the Mussel Ridge Channe...
At the nursing home with end-stage Alzheimer’s.
Judy on her father’s lap. 1922.
One week before her death. Finally at peace.
Endnotes
Appendix
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