Stolen Memories: One Family's Experience with Alzheimer's Disease
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (911 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0595158498 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 140 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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This story deals with the guilt that caregivers often carry as the gradually have to invade their parents privacy in order to keep them safe everything from having to take a drivers license away, to having to put a parent into an Alzheimers care facility. It is important that those who have been through caring for a parent with Alzheimers disease share their stories, as these experiences may help someone recognize and deal with this disease in its early stages.. Marie encounters feelings of helplessness as she has to go against her mothers wishes in order to care for her. Later her struggles through her own dark depression as the hopeless prognosis of Alzheimers disease takes its toll on her entire family, understands her agonizing sense that no matter what she did, it wasnt enough.STOLEN MEMORIES deals with real issues that confront m
I am opening up my life, however painfully, in hopes that my experiences will avert a similar disaster in the lives of others dealing with Alzheimer’s disease. I want my experiences to be a warning to others. The guilt I felt after placing my mother into a nursing home, caused me to suffer a nervous breakdown. They often overlook caregivers, but the impact upon them is greater than most realize. Box 18488 Kearns, Utah 84118 E-mail mcloud@addall . Much of what I went through could have been avoided, if I had known the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, if I had not tried to be Sup
. Marie Cloud worked in Corporate America for seventeen years. After caring for her mother who developed Alzheimer's she wrote and published several essays and management articles
"An honest, touching account of one daughter's experience" according to Kate. For anyone who has lived with a family member who has Alzheimer's or another type of dementia, this book will be both a mirror and a comfort. Written in plainspoken, painfully honest language, Stolen Memories chronicles a daughter's experiences and feelings as she slowly loses a beloved mother to the ravages of Alzheimer's. The effects on herself and her family, the myriad ways with which she tried to cope with both. A Journey Past Forgetting D.H. St. Martin In January 1993, Marie Cloud's mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, but that diagnosis came only after several years of slow recognition of a mounting problem. Cloud's account of her family's journey with her mother down the dark, frightening and ever degenerating path of this illness may seem halting at times, but she never fails to reveal the brutal truths of her own responses to the loss of her mother b