Gerda’s j_wls in a language that used to have no v_wels
About a month ago, I received an e-mail from Meirav Arielly, editorial secretary at “TheMarker” (http://www.themarker.com), “Israel’s leading business media organization,” asking for photos and permission to capture stills from the film series that RadioWest is making about my family and me to accompany a forthcoming “article about you and your important book: Memory’s Last […]
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Published on September 11, 2017 13:10
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Field Notes on My Dementia
When I turned 61 in 2011, I was diagnosed with cerebral microvascular disease, a precursor of dementia. Since retiring from my job as the associate director of Gender Studies at the University of Utah
When I turned 61 in 2011, I was diagnosed with cerebral microvascular disease, a precursor of dementia. Since retiring from my job as the associate director of Gender Studies at the University of Utah soon after my diagnosis, I completed a memoir, MEMORY’S LAST BREATH: FIELD NOTES ON MY DEMENTIA, which is forthcoming from Hachette Books in June 2017. But dementia does not hold still. Like anyone with a degenerative brain disease, I continue to dement every day, never done until I die. Every time my brain suffers an additional insult, I have less brain power to puzzle out my remaining “self.” There will come a time when I don’t care or don’t know who I am. Until then, though, I hope to maintain this website with the help of my saintly and tech-savvy husband, Peter.
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