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Although this book focused on a woman slowly coming to grips with her diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's Disease, I found many parallels to the last couple months of my mom's life, as the cancer that started in her lungs eventually moved to her brain and robbed her of lucidity and awareness, much as it did Alice. The restlessness, constant difficulty finding things, inability to express what exactly it was she was looking for, all of that felt so familiar. Thankfully, Mom never lost recognitio
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At 50, Alice is happy married with three grown children, a successful professor at Harvard. When she starts to forget things and experience strange episodes of disorientation, she assumes she stressed and menopausal. However, a trip to a neurologist confirms that she is suffering from early onset Alzheimer’s.
Alice struggles to maintain her sense of self, even as everything she loves is stripped away. Thought-provoking and heartbreaking.
Alice struggles to maintain her sense of self, even as everything she loves is stripped away. Thought-provoking and heartbreaking.
This extremely well-written book is utterly terrifying and depressing. The reader easily comes to care about and identify with the protagonist, thus her descent into the inescapable hole of Alzheimer's disease is all the more harrowing. If this ever happens to me, please let my family agree to immediately move to Oregon where I can legally off myself before I get too far gone.
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This was a hard book for me to read as my Nana had Alzheimer's and i am terrified of getting it myself. I lived at my Nana's house as a teenager and witnessed the onset of the disease, though we didn't recognize it at the time - not until it got much worse.
This book allowed me to gain insight into the progression from the sufferers point of view and I found it fascinating and disturbing at the same time. ...more
This book allowed me to gain insight into the progression from the sufferers point of view and I found it fascinating and disturbing at the same time. ...more
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