If your care giving duties allow you time to read.....................I'm interested in what book you are in the middle of or just finished or have waiting on your bedside table.
I'm reading "Total Control" by David Baldacci
It's a crime/thriller drama. Quite compelling.
If you can't find the time to read, you should try. It helps to escape from it all in a good book.
Wasn't aware of this one. Is it new?
The Cliffs by Countney Sullivan is next on the list.
Also have on the kindle IBS Solutions by Amanda Malachesky. Boy, lifelong sufferer from IBS and keep it in control (ha ha ) best I can, but this book, out of the 100s I have read, is AMAZING. So much this old RN and her gastroenterologist had no idea of! Highly recommend if the gut is a plain in the backside.
Currently I'm reading his latest book 'The Dragon's Prophecy'.
His last book 'Return Of The Gods' has been his best.
'The Harbinger II' was extremely good too.
Dang! I left my library book in my car - again. Husband just went out & borrowed my car - again. Unfinished & overdue - again 🙄
I’ve been in the mood for lighter fare for a few months but am having a heck of a time finding anything that keeps me interested.
So it is My Journey into Alzheimer's Disease a memoir by Robert Davis.
And of course, once I realized I hadn't logged in I knew why the Edit button didn't come up. Forgive my internet inadequacies (and my others as well).
Just finished a book Lea Recommended. Not new. My Journey into Alzheimer's.
She recommended this book to one of our OPs who was asking "How can I tell what it's like to HAVE Alzheimer's".
This book is written by a pastor, so know going in that it is very heavy on his faith, and how it sustained him on his journey; I am an atheist and I found it difficult to get through to the parts about what it felt like to have Alzheimer's at times. BUT this book is one I would recommend to anyone (even an atheist like me). While the book was finished by his wife when he could not longer tell of his journey, this, other than listening to my own brother, is about the BEST thing I have ever read about WHAT THIS FEELS LIKE. What the losses and fear is like. How difficult nighttime and sleep. And on and on and on.
I found this book very inexpensive used on AMazon the day Lealonnie recommended it. I thank her always for her comments here which are so stellar without fail, and most recently for this recommend. Her own journey has taught, enlightened, encourage so many of us. Thanks to Lea! Yet again.
This comment would fit in the Aged Care site: ‘We do not find men falling down because they expect to find someone helping them up’. But we do find just that, in people not planning for age care!
Life's Gauntlet: Alzheimer's Disease and a Caregiver's Journey for non-fiction and everything ever written by David Vann for fiction (tough stuff)
to reading the synopsis of one in particular,
and then navigating back to the original page,
and then on to the next page,
and the next page,
selecting another book,
borrowing the book,
back again,
turn the page,
IT'S MADDENING!!!
And I can't use shortcuts like opening multiple tabs because it won't let you do that. AHHH!
I read so much, and so many books at a time (mostly non-fiction), that I don’t usually post here. I’m currently unpacking books from the farm, and ploughing through my Agatha Christies to sort out the duplicates. Miss Marple is my current ‘light read’ in bed.
Right up our alley!
The book mentions the "heat dome" that hovered over the Pacific Northwest in 2021 for about a week. Temps to 102 deg.--that was totally unprecedented for this area. Winter snowfall this year has been 50-75% of normal so far. These are NOT good changes.
When I was distressed I opened up another and went into that world of the 80s when everyone smoked, and Airwick was a thing, when there was pimento cheese in a jam jar, and when there were no cell phones and DNA was only a glimmer of hope.
I am on Law is for Lawless, and I am thoroughly enjoying the work of this woman who WAS taken suddenly and unexpectedly by cancer, a blood cancer if I remember, before she could finish the alphabet.
Thanks to her--and to authors everywhere, who deliver us from real life to another magical world where we can escape. May she long live on helping others tho she is so long gone from us.
Waist height, better for Mother's back (in theory).
The reality was one-handed hair washing as sister yelled & twisted about & was pinned down on the draining board with Mother's other hand so she didn't wriggle off & fall. I think I stood on a chair to help pin her legs down.
No-one had invented those little hat-face guards the little children wear in the bath yet.
“Hang little girls’ dresses on the line inside out, so the hem fades equally ready for letting down”.
“Wash small children’s hair by lying them down on the draining board with their head over the sink”. If only!
But absolutely nothing on aged care. Zip! Zilch! Clearly, there wasn’t much of it going on!
Got a bunch of real books as have not investigated library e-versions yet - but will be.