Read stories from the book
That day. Oh, that day. Seared in my memory. The day that my mind officially let enter the very real possibility that Russ had Alzheimer’s disease.
Nothing fired me up more than being stuck in a nothing-is-working situation and needing fast answers with zero info anywhere. I’d rack my brain to overload trying to figure ways to get Russ to take his medicine without a big brouhaha. Or to step into the shower, change his clothes, ward off anxiety, anything! I couldn’t possibly be the first caregiver with these dilemmas, could I? So why was it so hard to find desperately needed tricks of the trade?
It was a cloudy, gray morning. The edge of the bed was soft as I sat facing the upstairs bedroom window. The graceful pines stared back at me from atop their knoll. I held my phone in a hand that was clammy and cold. I was sure the call I was about to make would make or break my sanity.
why this book
Caregiver to Caregiver
Hello, kindred caregivers…this book is a heart-to-heart conversation about what we do and how we feel as caregivers for our loved ones with dementia.
My sole desire with this book is to help caregivers internalize that we are not alone, neither in our experiences nor in the emotions we feel. They are universal, all. We are survivors, proud of caregiving that could bend the soul but never break it. We are one with the untold numbers of silent, caregiver heroes who willingly give our all to our loved ones, give it again, and still get again.
Know that you are magnificent! I salute you.
—Dale Ruth Sherburne, Author
There are only four kinds of people in the world—
~Rosalynn Carter
those who have been caregivers,
those who are caregivers,
those who will be caregivers, and
those who will need caregivers.
Neither Wife nor Widow 