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Jan's Story: Love lost to the long goodbye of… af Barry Petersen
This is a heartbreaking true story of Barry Petersen's experience with his wife's early onset alzheimer's disease. Having experienced this with my father, it describes the helpless situation a loved one is in when dealing with this. Her gradual decline was so sad and what a sincere tribute to his beloved wife.
The sad, moving, personal and on-going story of television news correspondent Barry Petersen's loss of his wife's cognition due to early onset Alzheimer's syndrome. Informative, well organized, and well told, the book is comes across as honest, intimate, with a hint of apologist. Well done considering the topic.
This is the true story of a beautiful lady in her 50's that in 2005, learned that she had Early Onset Alzheimer's. Her husband called it "The Disease." Her husband Barry, is a CBS news correspondent who traveled the world for his stories. His wife accompanied him on these ventures until he needed to have rest for himself and the guilt he felt leaving her. Today, she is in assisted living in Denver CO near her family.
I know there are many who condemn Peterson for how he has handled this situation. I'm not one of them. Life is a continuum; his beautiful wife, Jan has all but slipped away due to early-onset Alzheimers. While they remain legally married, the true connections of marriage are no longer in place. He has not abandoned her; rather he has strengthened his ability to care for her as long as she remains physically present in the world. I would likely have had a different opinion on all of this if this story had presented prior to my being widowed, but there again is that life/continuum thingy.… (mere)
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