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Designated Daughter: The Bonus Years With Mom
Moving, insightful, and above all, honest, "Designated Daughter" speaks to the joys and privileges of bringing generations together toward the end of life. With incredible sensitivity and humor, Fulford recounts her own uplifting story of how she became her mother's closest companion.
Hardcover, 208 pages
Published
April 1st 2008
by Hyperion
(first published 2008)
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"Looking at her, small and shriveled, you wondered how that emaciated, frail body -- how all of us, with our little shrinking outsides -- could contain such tenacity, integrity, ability. Betty showed the whole world that we can. It was an inspiration to watch." p.184
Debby in her 50's, her mother Phyllis in her 80's. Debby, divorced, grown daughter, moves back to Columbus OH to be more of a companion to her mother after her father dies. Initially her mother is very vibrant and act...more
Debby in her 50's, her mother Phyllis in her 80's. Debby, divorced, grown daughter, moves back to Columbus OH to be more of a companion to her mother after her father dies. Initially her mother is very vibrant and act...more
My Review of DESIGNATED DAUGHTER by D. G. Fulford with Phyllis Greene
In Designated Daughter: The Bonus Years with Mom, D. G. Fulford with her mother, Phyllis Greene, gives everyone who reads this book a bonus! Readers will find a witty, touching, and inspirational story of a mother and daughter and how their relationship grows and changes with age and through life’s experiences. After D. G.’s father dies, she decides it is best to move back home to be closer to her mother. She return...more
In Designated Daughter: The Bonus Years with Mom, D. G. Fulford with her mother, Phyllis Greene, gives everyone who reads this book a bonus! Readers will find a witty, touching, and inspirational story of a mother and daughter and how their relationship grows and changes with age and through life’s experiences. After D. G.’s father dies, she decides it is best to move back home to be closer to her mother. She return...more
I went to the library without a list so I browsed the new book shelf and came up with this one. It's a beautiful look and tribute at caring for an elderly parent. I'm ashamed to say I never looked at this task, which may fall to me as the childless spinster of the family (though my sister is closer physically and emotionally, so who knows), with anything but dread, an interruption of my "real life," a stultifying burden. While my relationship with my mother is not the idyllic one DG...more
This was tough as it described me the past 16 years with my mom before her death.
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A great book and "must read" for any daughter who is traveling this road with her mother. It made me step back from the frustration and time consumption that a designated daughter experiences, and revel in this time we have together.
I love this book for so many reasons. So much to relate to and even more that I wished for. I would consider it a must read if you're a mother or a daughter.
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Easy read memoir written by mom and daughter about the impact of aging on both and the positives/negatives and how their lives intertwine
About a daughter and her mother, the daughter in her new role as the caretaker. Laughter and tears, an easy read. True story.
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