A Return Journey: Hope and Strength in the Aftermath of Alzheimer'sPurdue University Press, 2003 - 188 من الصفحات A Return Journey is truly the author's travels into the world of Alzheimer's. Drawing on her correspondence and conversations with other caregivers, Petrovski provides a unique look at the environment of Alzheimer's--the afflicted, the affected, the afterthoughts. In the end, she talks of the true survivors left behind to deal with the disease's aftermath--the caregivers. Petrovski describes how caregivers traverse the successes and failures of their journey until they eventually find the best route on the rocky path of helping human beings in the throes of diminishing selfhood. Offering caregivers hope, support, and a sense of oneness, A Return Journey demonstrates that as painful as it is to watch a loved one vanish bit by bit, there is grace and wisdom to be found on the way. |
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Developing a Caregivers Mindset | 42 |
Day by Day with the Stranger | 57 |
A Few Extra Moments Please | 75 |
Tales of Laughter and Love | 87 |
Guilty Decisions | 96 |
Children in the Family | 125 |
Faith Hope and Love | 144 |
Epilogue | 157 |
Appendix A | 165 |
Appendix B | 168 |
Appendix C | 170 |
Appendix D | 171 |
Resources | 173 |
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الصفحة 58 - One can't believe impossible things. 1 daresay you haven't had much practice. said the Queen. “When I was your age. I always did it for half an hour a day. Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass The
الصفحة 12 - I have a little shadow who goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
الصفحة 4 - Fog The fog comes On little cat feet It sits looking Over harbor and city On silent haunches And then moves on. —Carl Sandburg, from
الصفحة 58 - half an hour a day. Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass The
الصفحة 94 - Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning
الصفحة 26 - Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river. which he frequented. as pleasantly as ever The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God. and we will not be
الصفحة 108 - knowing. having to change. taking the moment, and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.
الصفحة 157 - What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
الصفحة 109 - you really are strong. And you really do have worth. And you learn and you learn... With every goodbye you learn.
الصفحة 108 - that some poems don't rhyme. and some stories don't have a clear beginning. middle, and end. Life is about