To Love What Is: A Marriage Transformed
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (605 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374278156 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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For Alix Kates Shulman, it happened on July 22, 2004, at two a.m. She woke to find that her beloved seventy-five-year-old husband had fallen the nine feet from their sleeping loft and was lying on the floor below, naked and deathly still. In this elegant memoir, Shulman describes life on the other side: the ongoing anxieties and risks—and surprising rewards—she experiences as she reorganizes her world and her priorities to care for her husband and discovers that what might have seemed a grim life sentence to some has evolved into something unexpectedly rich.. Each of us has imagined with dread the occurrence of just such an event outside our control tha
His impairment is rendered particularly poignant as Shulman (Drinking the Rain and Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen), moves backward in time over their 50-year relationship, first as college lovers in 1950, meeting up again in 1984, when as divorced adults in their 50s they rekindled their passion and mutual interests and got married. All rights reserved. . Advocating for the best treatment, therapy and eventual care back in their New York City loft became the author's calling for the next year, though to her growing dismay she recognized that her once brilliant husband, a sculptor and former financier, would never make art again or even be able to hold an intellectual conversation. (Sept.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Carving out time for herself and her
To Love What Is This memoir was excellent. It isn't a very long book, but it is packed full of much insight and love. The author writes with such honesty and care, I felt like I was the one receiving it. I will look at her other memoirs. I remembering trying one of her fictional books and two of her memoirsand not getting into any of them very far. But after reading this book I will attempt them a. A Parkinsons disease patient's perspective. I am an 81 year old Parkinsons disease guy whose first symptoms began to show up fifteen years ago but who was not diagnosed until seven years ago. Fortunately my wife possesses many of the sterling characteristics possessed by Alix Shulman. She helps me get dressed, helps me into and out of chairs and the car, answers the same questions I ask her day after day without getting angr. Amazon Customer said After Brain Injury, Love. A number of books have come out in the last few years on caring for a loved one after brain injury: Where is the Mango Princess and Three Dog Life come to mind. Alix Kates Shulman's book is a memoir of caring for her severely brain injured husband, but she goes very far into care giving and we sense that she feels guilt and remorse over her husband's fall from their loft. We don't