ASIN: B00F4HBUNK
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 134
'Pray for a happy death and ,when you start a baby, pray for an easy birth.My mother prayed for many things in her long life, but she told me that we should all pray for these two things in particular.'This is the true story of a family trying to cope with their mother's descent into dementia. A moving and evocative family story, The Good Mother: The Death and Life of May Harris, delves into the daily struggle of caring for an elderly woman at home as she succumbs to vascular dementia. Geraldine Quigley never thought she would become a carer for her mother, none of her family did. When May Harris broke her hip, and another hip in quick succession, an event which led to the rapid development of confusion and dementia, her family had to react to her increasing need with 24 hour care.In this unflinching memoir, Geraldine looks back at her family's struggle to deal with the daily stress of ...
