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Nothing good gets away. —John Steinbeck’s letter to his son Thom, 1958
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Every illness was awful, but Alzheimer’s had a unique sort of staged cruelty. Lucinda felt as if she were losing her mother bit by bit, like a death in life, a purgatory no different from hell. Stage V was the final stage of the illness, but the neurologist had no idea when she
i agree!
The special book was a construction paper booklet that had photos of us, with captions explaining who we are. The kids had made it when my mother-in-law first moved into Memory Care, and the special book was the way of introducing Ethan and me into the visit, suggested by her doctors.
Awesome Idea!
