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Cargando... Just a Word: Alzheimer's (edición 2009)por Rose Lamatt (Autor)
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Today is the first day I've had the desire to write. I've thought about it for months, even years, but this is the first time I feel the need. I want to write of the struggle she's going through with this horrific disease; the everyday living. I want to write how the caregiver loses herself along with the victim. Victim--first time I've used that word. But there is no other word that best describes it. Carol is a victim of time.I've lost any thought that she'll get better. I've come to the conclusion I'm living alone, even though she's with me in body. She doesn't talk to me in understandable conversation. We play charades to discover what she wants.I've stopped all walks and exercise. My agoraphobia is back or has it just been hiding? I don't want to go to the store because I'm alone, even though she's at my side. I hate life, eating fatty foods, hoping to have a heart attack and die. Then I won't have to face her dying in front of me, inch by inch. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Other parts were hard to read too, though very informative- the poor quality of care that her friend receives in various homes, the daily struggle of caring for someone who is aggressive, confused and resistant and physically larger, and the constant emotional and financial battles, as well as Lamatt's own health struggles. I appreciated Lamatt's brutal honesty and humility.
I'm giving this 4 stars for the story itself, and 1.5 stars for the writing! Though it is written much like a journal/diary, the grammar mistakes are so numerous that it kind of detracts from it all. Missing words, commas inserted willy nilly, apostrophes where they don't belong, run on sentences and lots of dangling participles, etc.. I have issues with self published books for just this reason... Editors and proofreaders should have reviewed Lamatt's book; as it stands now it reads like a rough draft. Nevertheless, I'd like to read her other book, Is Life One Big Goodbye:Homeless Woman's Survival Story. Her voice is good; her writing needs to be edited though!
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