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Alzheimer’s Canyon

Alzheimer’s Canyon

Jane Dwinell / Sky Yardley

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Rootstock Publishing
Año de edición:
2022
Materia
Biografía: ciencia, tecnología y medicina
ISBN:
9781578691128
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2023 IPNE Award Winner, Narrative Nonfiction2022 Foreword INDIES Finalist, Health (Adult Nonfiction)2023 Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalist5-Star Readers’ FavoriteWhat do you do when your reality slips away? If you’re Sky Yardley and Jane Dwinell, you accept each new challenge, reshape your life, and write.When Sky was diagnosed with 'probable early stage Alzheimer’s' at age 66, he was determined to live as fully with his new reality as possible. He researched dementia, talked about dementia, connected with other people with the disease, and, finally, he wrote about it. With humor and honesty, love and compassion, Sky and his wife Jane describe what it’s like to live with a constantly evolving and mysterious new life. 'The brain is a mysterious thing,' writes Jane, as Sky muses about traveling unmapped roads with no GPS.Welcome to Alzheimer’s Canyon: there is one way in, and no way out. Follow Sky and Jane as they navigate this journey they did not ask to take, a journey that balances pain, loss, and confusion with gratitude, wonder, and transformation.

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