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Still Alice … Lisa Genova

Have you ever forgotten what you walked in a room for, misplaced an object (phone, glasses) and looked for them everywhere, or even forgot how you got from one place to another while out jogging? This is how it started out for Alice Howland.

Alice and her husband, John, are both professors at Harvard. She suspects she is dealing with ordinary forgetfulness caused by age, stress, menopause, or lack of sleep until it becomes apparent it is accumulating cognitive failures that signal Alzheimer’s.

Fourteen months after Alice’s diagnosis, she is giving a speech to the Annual Dementia Care Conference. An exerpt from her speech is: “Being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s is like being branded with a scarlet A. But I am not what I say or what I do or what I remember. I am fundamentally more than that…Please don’t look at our scarlet A’s and write us off.”

The book ends with her family out for dinner and she is holding her first grandbaby without really knowing who the baby is.

This is a sad story that explores the world of Alzheimer’s. Anyone who knows someone who is experiencing the onset of this horrible disease can see themselves and all the raw emotions that come with this road.

LB


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