Farewell To My Companion

Diana Hutton

• 28 augustus 2022
• 9780648838081

Samenvatting:

Farewell to my Companion recounts the trials and tribulations of the author in adjusting to and caring for her husband, once a journalist and successful political, now suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. It deals with the doubts and the dedication involved and it is written with love and that sense of obligation inherent in such a task.

This is also the personal journey of a wife's care for her husband, victim of Alzheimer's Disease. Apart from a brief introduction to their past as a couple, it concentrates on the final years of his illness, on the terrible memory loss which affected their relationship. It delves, too, into his medical care and hospital treatment, but most of all, into the doubts and intricacies of his wife's emotions as she confronts his end and the knowledge of her solitary future. It is a book written with the aim of sharing with others who might be passing through a similar experience, in the hopes that it might encourage them and offer them a friendly hand.