With Love: A Caregiver's Journal [Paperback]

Marian Wright (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 24, 2000

With Love: A Caregiver's Journal is an authentic, sincere, and loving documentation of the caregiving realities and experiences from someone who has been there. It is the true, heartfelt account of the author's daily experiences as her elderly mother's primary and sole caregiver for over five years. Taken from her daily journal recordings, the author honestly expresses the full gamut of her emotions while struggling with the dilemmas, frustrations, joys, grief, and fears during the greatest challenge of her life. This is an inspirational story showing how life's lessons are instruments toward the evolvement of an individual's spiritual growth.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

A graduate of the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Marian Wright has experienced a varied career in public education as a classroom teacher, a speech therapist, a teacher for learning disabled and emotionally impaired children, and a language arts curriculum consultant. Now retired, she actively supports the writing programs at the University of Michigan-Flint, specifically, the Marian E. Wright Computer Writing Classroom and Writing Center. She resides in Flint, Michigan.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (March 24, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595091792
• ISBN-13: 978-0595091799
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #152,015 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars With Love: A Caregiver's Journal, February 1, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: With Love: A Caregiver's Journal (Paperback)

Once in a while a book is discovered that is the perfect gift for those wonderful folks called caregivers. With Love, A Caregiver's Journal is such a book. Recently, I gave the book to a friend who has been caring for her Mother for ten years. She told me she sat down and read it the day it arrived. "It had been a particularly bad week with Mom and Marian Wright's book helped me in so many ways. First, I knew I wasn't alone. Then, I found myself feeling, somehow, less guilty. Finally, I dug out my long forgotten journal and began to write. I hope it doesn't sound too melodramatic to say this book may have saved my life. Thank you." This was not the first time I have given this book to friends in need and it certainly won't be the last. I highly recommend it for others.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars With Love; A Caregiver's Journal, September 1, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: With Love: A Caregiver's Journal (Paperback)

Ms. Wright's book is a "must" for anyone who is a caregiver, who has been a caregiver or who will soon be a caregiver. Her journal takes one through the "roller coaster" of emotions common to a caregiver--joy, sorrow, resentment, guilt, loneliness, etc., etc. Reading her journal makes one realize they are not alone in this experience of caregiving. There are many of us who are, have been, or will be taking the same journey as Ms. Wright, and it is comforting to know about the silent support and understanding of others.

The book is an easy to read journal style. Once you begin reading, you will not want to stop until you finish Ms. Wright's book.

Thanks to Ms. Wright for sharing her experience with us.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Caregiver's Journal, September 25, 2000

By 

Karen Cornell (Highland, MI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: With Love: A Caregiver's Journal (Paperback)

This is a helpful and compelling book for any caregiver to read at any stage in the caregiving process--before, during, or after. The author prepares for her mother's death in a loving and spiritual way. By writing a day-by-day journal account, we are also able to share her frustration, anger, and aloneness as her mother's sole caregiver. Her honest sharing of emotions gave me great comfort in knowing that the gamut of feelings I experienced as a caregiver were perfectly normal.

The author accomplished her primary goal of being able to care for her mother until the end of her life without putting her in a nursing home. We are privileged to see how she made it through the experience with unusual openess, insight, and inspiration.

I've never read anything better on this subject. I found it honest and uplifting. This book should be in the hands of all caregivers and anyone who works with them.