Memory's Last Breath : Field Notes on My Dementia (Hardcover)

from Big_Bang_Gorilla

William F. Buckley once said that ninety-nine people out of one hundred are interesting, and the one hundredth is interesting because they aren't. This awkward book, a memoir issued under the guise of being an account of the progress of the author's dementia, gives that formulation a good hard wo...

from texicanwife

This has been my favorite read so far this summer. A poignant look, through the first person eye of the writer, at dementia. As a geriatric nurse for 30 years, I have seen it come to many, many people. Slowly it attacks the mind. Until eventually, the person that houses the mind, is just a shell....

from texicanwife

This has been my favorite read so far this summer. A poignant look, through the first person eye of the writer, at dementia. As a geriatric nurse for 30 years, I have seen it come to many, many people. Slowly it attacks the mind. Until eventually, the person that houses the mind, is just a shell....