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Cargando... Mother in the Middle: A Biologist's Story of Caring for Parent and Childpor Sybil Lockhart
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Als bij haar moeder Alzheimer wordt geconstateerd, besluit een neurologe en jonge moeder een groot deel van de zorg op zich te nemen ( ) It's too bad she had to quit her neurobiology job, because she ruined a perfectly good memoir with irritating insertions about what was going on biologically with her mother, who developed Alzheimers, her child, and her to-be-born child. If you're interested in the biology behind those things, you'd read a scientific book, not a memoir; and if you're expecting a memoir, you have to skip all those pretentious passages. All of that aside, the memoir was quite good and well-done. So I'd rate it a 1 and a 4, ending up as a 3 1/2 on the strength of the memoir writing. Mother in the Middle is a poignant memoir of a woman taking care of her young daughters and her mother, who has early-onset Alzheimer’s. Sybil has a background in neurobiology, so her observations of her daughters’ mental growth and her mothers’ regression are particularly insightful. This book does a fine job of weaving in the scientific background to the story. At times it does get a little too scientific, but for the most part it is very well done. I am really impressed by the honesty Sybil Lockhart displays in this book. On the whole, Sybil is a saint in her caring for her mother, but she explains all her emotions and reactions – even the ones that you’d hesitate to confide to a close friend. It’s wonderful validation to those of us that struggle with not-quite-sainthood in caring for aging relatives. I was a bit disappointed that the memoir was unbalanced, telling us far more about the mother’s regression than the daughters’ development. I would have been even more intrigued if the girls’ growth was highlighted a little more. a good book for a selective audience. Sybil is a biologist, has a new child and her mom Ruth starts forgetting whole conversations. It takes a while to get through the denial and have her tested and she has alzheimers. Sybil takes us through the paces of how life becomes when she is needed by both ends of the spectrum. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Sybil Lockhart, a Berkeley neurobiologist, became a "mother in the middle" when she was pregnant with her second daughter and her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. What makes Sybil's story different, and so powerful, is that she understood the neurological processes, by turns exciting and devastating, that were taking place in the brains of those she loved. Interweaving her scientific expertise with her own complicated emotions, she writes with elegant simplicity and breathtaking honesty about biology's inevitable, powerful effects on the people around her. When her mother begins to show the first subtle signs of the disease that is slowly ravaging her brain, Sybil refuses to consider the possibility of dementia, insisting that all her mother needs is a daughter nearby. She relocates her young family to her beloved San Francisco Bay Area, where her memories of her mother and her childhood are deeply anchored. As Sybil sets about creating new memories against the backdrop of her past, the emerging undeniable truth about her mother's condition threatens to overwhelm her ability to maintain her career, nurture her marriage, raise her young daughter, and care for herself during her second pregnancy. Even though she appreciates the beauty of the dramatic biological processes at work inside the brains of her family members, she also understands their inevitable power, and she bravely describes the complicated emotions -- denial, rage, ambivalence, exhaustion -- that so many caregivers experience. With a unique combination of science and intimate experience, Mother in the Middle is a story of mothers and daughters, science and creativity, and life's exquisite intertwining of love and loss. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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