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1 online resource (xiii, 319 pages) |
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I know where I'm going. I'm still myself. I just can't remember things as well as I once did. So on short trips, I work hard not to be confused. I'll say to myself, "What are we going to do? How long are we staying?" It's like I'm talking to my other self--the self I used to be. She tells me, "This is what we need to buy--not that." I'm conscious of that other self guiding me now." Restaurateur, magazine publisher, celebrity chef, and nationally known lifestyle maven, B. Smith is struggling at 64 with a tag she never expected to add to that string: Alzheimer's patient. She's not alone. Every 67 seconds someone newly develops it, and millions of lives are affected by its aftershocks. B. and her husband, Dan, working with Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Shnayerson, unstintingly share their unfolding story. Crafted in short chapters that interweave their narrative with practical and helpful advice, readers learn about dealing with Alzheimer's day-to-day challenges: the family realities and tensions, ways of coping, coming research that may tip the scale, as well lessons learned along the way. At its heart, though, Before I Forget is a love story: illuminating a love of family, life, and hope. From the Hardcover edition. |
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A nationally known lifestyle maven and her husband share their experiences with her diagnosis of Alzheimer's, in an account that doubles as a love story and provides practical and helpful advice for dealing with the day-to-day challenges of this disease. |
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"Working with Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Shnayerson, B. and her husband, Dan, share B.'s unfolding story on dealing with early-onset Alzheimer's. Crafted in short chapters that interweave their narrative with practical and helpful advice, readers learn in small bites about dealing with Alzheimer's disease's day-to-day challenges, the family tensions, and ways of coping, as well as gain tips on diet and exercise from a lifestyle maven using her decades of expertise in a new and unexpected way"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-303) and index. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Smith, B. (Barbara), 1949-
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Gasby, Dan.
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Gasby, Dan. |
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Smith, B. (Barbara), 1949- |
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Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
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Married people -- United States -- Biography.
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Alzheimer's disease -- Family relationships.
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Biography & Autobiography. |
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Health & Fitness. |
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Self-Improvement. |
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Nonfiction. |
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Biography & Autobiography. |
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Health & Fitness. |
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Self-Improvement. |
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Nonfiction. |
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Electronic books. |
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Electronic books.
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Gasby, Dan, author.
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Shnayerson, Michael, author.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Smith, B. (Barbara), 1949- Before I forget New York : Harmony Books, [2016] 9780553447125 (DLC) 2015009839 (OCoLC)914445736 |
| ISBN |
9780553447132 : $48.00 |
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0553447130 : $48.00 |
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