Another Name for MadnessA first-person account of the adjustment and struggle for understanding as one family confronts Alzheimer's disease. |
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... talk about Margaret's depression . Some weeks it was less severe ; some weeks , said my mother , there was real ... talking about herself . Margaret also remembers that Dr. Prutting always spoke right to my mother about depression , and ...
... talk about Margaret's depression . Some weeks it was less severe ; some weeks , said my mother , there was real ... talking about herself . Margaret also remembers that Dr. Prutting always spoke right to my mother about depression , and ...
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... talk and she and I would talk and I figured we all were talking about — thinking about the same thing , and that that was good . I watered down the incident of my finding her in the bed . I said that I had been " hysterical " and that ...
... talk and she and I would talk and I figured we all were talking about — thinking about the same thing , and that that was good . I watered down the incident of my finding her in the bed . I said that I had been " hysterical " and that ...
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... talk about it later . " He looked as if someone had died . My mother was supposed to be out with a friend . I walked ... talking about letting us move Allene . She was talking about letting us do it alone . We had been getting hang - up ...
... talk about it later . " He looked as if someone had died . My mother was supposed to be out with a friend . I walked ... talking about letting us move Allene . She was talking about letting us do it alone . We had been getting hang - up ...
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Allene Alzheimer's disease anger angry apartment asked bathroom beautiful became bedroom began Billie Holiday brain called cats child confused daughter depressed dinner doctor door Douglaston Ella Fitzgerald Erroll Flynn eyes father favorite FDR Drive feel felt Frank Sinatra friends garet girl Grandma hair hand hated heard hysterectomy Janet Kaplan Joe Nichols knew later laugh learned Lette Lisa listen looked loved lunch Margaret Marion married memory menopause Mommy months morning mother mother's illness moved never night Pee Wee Russell Prutting realized Reisberg remember Reuben sandwich Roach seemed senile shower sister sitting smile smoked someone staring started stay Steve Cauthen stopped stories Sunday Sydney Schanberg talk tell tennis thing thought told took tried trying walked wanted to know week woman wrong York York University young Zillmann