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No Saints around Here : A Caregiver's Days /
When we promise "in sickness and in health," it may be a mercy that we don't know exactly what lies ahead. Forcing food on an increasingly recalcitrant spouse. Brushing his teeth. Watching someone you love more than ever slip away day by day. As her husband James's Parkinson'...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- Introduction
- No Saints around Here
- Together
- Red Flag in the Mailbox
- His Cold, My Cold
- Let Me Count the Ways
- Failing Battery
- Sleeping with a Wombat
- Stuff, Stuff, Stuff
- Overloaded
- The Nursing Home on the Hill
- Teeth Torture Time
- Time on the Tundra
- How Is James?
- Priorities: Blue Jeans
- Smiling under Water
- Beige Lies, Pink Lies, Purple Lies
- A Very Short Tooth Tale
- Hanging On
- Absent Friends
- No Skipping to the Last Page
- My Adventures with Gentlemen's Pads
- The Voice in the Bathroom Cupboard
- Just a Minute!
- At the Foot of the Roller Coaster
- Gravy
- Home, Alone
- Through the Hospice Door
- Time, Again
- Off the Balance Beam
- Whatcha Know, Joe?
- Obsessions
- The Last Christmas
- Silver Anniversary
- The Net Is Larger Than You Imagine
- An Unexpected Corner of My Net
- The Long Passage
- Census Day
- Living in a Bubble
- Unmoored
- The Base Line
- Vanishing Perspective
- French Toast
- Firestorm
- A Ring among the Ashes
- Coda
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.