No Way Out of This - Loving a Partner with Alzheimer's

When Sue Lick's husband's charming forgetfulness worsens into dementia, she trades her life of writing, music, and travel with the love of her life for years of caregiving, guilt, and impossible decisions. And yet the love remains.

About the author

Sue Fagalde Lick, a former San Francisco Bay Area newspaper reporter and editor, is the author of the poetry chapbooks Gravel Road Ahead and The Widow at the Piano: Poems by a Distracted Catholic, the nonfiction books Stories Grandma Never Told: Portuguese Women in California, Childless by Marriage, and Love or Children: When You Can’t Have Both; and the novels Up Beaver Creek and Seal Rock Sound. When not writing, she sings and plays piano, guitar, and mandolin at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church and wherever people will listen. She lives in a coastal forest just south of Newport, Oregon.

Summary

When Sue Lick’s husband’s charming forgetfulness worsens into dementia, she trades her life of writing, music, and travel with the love of her life for years of caregiving, guilt, and impossible decisions. And yet the love remains.

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Product details

• Authors: Sue Fagalde Lick
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 25.06.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9781647426866
• ISBN: 978-1-64742-686-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Eldercare, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / Later Years, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Marriage & Long-Term Relationships